Listen
to yourself. When I decided to take up acting full-time
my sister was a little worried. My four best friends
who I have grown up with also wondered about it,
but I have always been infamous for saying something
and actually getting it done.
Experiment. I am making a movie called Moth Smoke
this year. We got the money for the movie in 48
hours flat, all because of an unbelievable script.
The movie will have no stars in it and I want to
cast people who are equally charged up about the
film as I am.
Winning and losing is not in your hands. All you
can do is kill yourself doing your best. Awards
are magnificent. But although both my awards have
been international awards, how does one determine
if I am a better actor than another? Keanu Reeves
was great in the Matrix, but Sean Penn would have
been a disaster.
Expect the worst. Go out there and chase your dreams
thinking of the worst-case scenario. If you are
prepared for the worst, you will automatically find
your very own safety blanket.
Everyone is practical when they are starving. Never
be practical, only be idealistic. I say this because
slowly but surely your ideals will be chipped away
from you.
I have a lot of regrets in life. In fact I am inundated
with them. I regret the quality of my acting in
some of my movies and regret acting in certain movies.
I regret being a hot headed punk when I was in school.
But how emasculating is a life without any regrets!
How can one not have regrets? Or else how will you
move forward?
Accept your fears. The biggest decision I have made
in my life is to accept and digest my fears and
then shoot past them.
Listen
to yourself. When I decided to take up acting full-time
my sister was a little worried. My four best friends
who I have grown up with also wondered about it,
but I have always been infamous for saying something
and actually getting it done. 
