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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.
I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.
For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.
Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
Because we had no money when I was growing up, when I started dancing, I wasn't allowed to be frivolous - my mum made me go to every lesson because she was paying for it.
The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.
I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.
