"Good and bad are equally valid choices. We just prefer the good." - Peter Sarsgaard

October 3, 2009: I wrote about worry yesterday, and worry in this case is just fear of being "bad." We went to a screening last night of Nick Hornsby's AN EDUCATION (excellent, btw, if extremely discomfiting at times), and there was a Q & A afterwards. Peter Sarsgaard did an hilarious impression of their Danish director, the point being you could never tell if she liked something or hated it because her manner, her affect, and her intonation was always the same, regardless: "Peter...that was very, very...good" or "Peter...that was very, very...bad." He said he got to like that way of working, saying it took out the "reward the actor when he's good, hit him when he's bad" type of direction, making him feel like "Good and bad are equally valid choices. We just prefer the good."

Kind of takes the worry out, when you look at it that way.