I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.
As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.
I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, being left in the wide sea of conjecture without a clue from analogy or experience, I find the conjecture of a God easy, obvious, and irresistible.
Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.
It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!
When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.