There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.
In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.
Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.
I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such as the bazooka, the mandolin, the Theremin, the alpine horn, the didgeridoo.
There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
I get to pick so many things as an actor. Also, I'm a good observer of people and their mannerisms.
There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.
We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
