You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
