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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
Don't be afraid to see the gift and talent you have, because that thing could lead to a substantial career for you. Because we all do something as good or better than most people.
As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.
It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.
If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
