It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.