I enjoyed meeting Emma

I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want … Read more

You don’t cast the

You don’t cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the … Read more

I was a painfully

I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn’t have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people – especially kids my own age – made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or … Read more

Most trouble is unnecessary.

Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can’t be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, … Read more

The essence of justice

The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed … Read more