Artists, you need rest in your system in order to create

The natural world is the greatest artist we have and actually, the natural world mirrors to you, the actor, you, the artist, the rhythm at which you need to be moving in order to pay attention to the world.

Your job is to slow down, do less, and be more. It is about resting.

Because in resting, you're digesting, you're paying attention to other people, you're paying attention to the world around you, you're taking time to integrate it, so that then, when it comes to your art form, you're able to bring that forward, the complexity of it. 

So your job is to slow down, to do less, and to be here.

It is a career that is really, really challenging, obviously from the point of view of ever feeling any stability whatsoever, but the actual holy grail of it is we get to be here.

We actually get to live in the moment, that's the payback - you actually get to experience your life, because as an actor, your job is to experience your life.

You live, and then you learn. You go into scene, you explore, you come out, and you see what you discovered. There's no right and wrong in acting.

It's a complex, paradoxical art form. It's both and. I hate and love you. I feel frustrated, and yearn for you. It's got the dualistic experience within it. It's one of the major forms of compassion and empathy practice that we have, for the audience, for us as an audience is art.

Because art, by its nature, is integrating, whether that be a painting, a piece of dance, an orchestra, a concert, the theater, or a film.

And the arts are just a human expression of nature and if we want to learn and reconnect with our art form, the first place to go is nature, is build your relationship and observational skills with birds and trees and plants and water and hills and mountains because there your system starts to regulate.

And you really need rest in your system in order to create.

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