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I Try And Find And Access The Parts Of Myself That Still Blindly Believe And Have Faith In A Lot Of Things. I Don't Mean To Be Cynical, But I've Also Discovered That I Still Have A Lot Of Those. And They May Not Be Where I Expected Them To Be. Maybe I've Been In Relationships, And This Is A Movie About Relationships, Like Romance Relationships - So Maybe I've Been In Some That Have Sort Of Made Me Lose My Faith. But Deep Down Inside, I Still Have Blind Faith.

I Think I'm Not In This Work To Not Look At Life As It Is. I'm Not In It To Say, "i Want To Wear A Mask And Escape," You Know. I Want To Know What's Happening In The World, And I Want To Have It Touch Me In A Way That I Can Do Something, My Little Part Like That, And Have It Somehow Translate.

I Could Draw Ideas. I Remember Writing A Paper For A Seminar Class. I Remember Writing A Paper About - And This Is Going To Sound Really Sort Of Pretentious, But That's Where My Mind Was At The Time - How Acting And The Performing Artist Can Really Be Like A Bodhisattva, How They Can Communicate Ultimately An Idea In A Way That Can Move And Shift Things. And That Was Wonderful. I Didn't Know Many Classes Where I Could Try And Relate The Thing That I Really Loved And Wanted To Do Into An Intellectual Idea, And That Happened To Be One Of Them.

As An Actor, I Feel Like I'm Somebody Who, When Somebody Gives Me A Mark, I Don't Want To Hit It. I Don't Like That. But Then, Without Even Knowing It, I Just Hit It.

My Mum Raised Us On Classic Movies And A Lot Of Musical Theatre.