So it's always the story first.
It takes you away.
It allows you to be the production designer
of your own imagination.
Our first memories in our life--
you're three years old.
You're dragging a book to your parent's lap.
Aren't you?
Or to a grandparent, or something,
and wanting to be told a story.
And it doesn't matter if you're 3 or 103,
that's the joyous, wonderful thing about human beings,
is that we want to be taken away.
Tell me a story.
Take me away.
Make me feel is the bottom line to that.
And that's the job of an artist in our business--
a writer, director, actor, producers,
is to know what will make audiences feel.
And truly, any feeling is OK.
To make an audience angry is not necessarily a bad thing.
It's just to move them to emotion.
The only time that we fail is if we move them to nowhere.
Let me tell you straight.
You have to have the guts and the strength.
But in the core of that, you have
to have a burning flame of a love of what
you're about to enter.
It has to be burning.
You have to tell yourself, there's nothing else I can do.
I have to try this.
Because I think the worst thing that could happen
is to go on with your life and have regret and wonder,
why didn't I give it a chance?
Why didn't I try?
I was young.
I was passionate.
I had the energy.
I had the desire.
And I chose a safer life, or something.
And that happens.
But I don't want that to happen to me.
I don't want it to happen to you.
So it's better to go out there and give it all you got.