Hello everybody. So welcome to the Creative Processing Podcast. My name is Joseph Gordon Leavitt.

I'm really excited to be doing this. I've always wanted to start a podcast and now I finally am I have headphones on I'm talking

into this microphone this is like the shit they use on NPR I feel I feel important

and sophisticated.

I thought I'd start out with the thought.

I once had the very fortunate opportunity to work with the actor Daniel Day

Lewis on the movie Lincoln. He was playing Abraham Lincoln. I was playing his son.

And Daniel's extremely lovely and warm and respectful

and just, I loved working with him, but he's not very social while you're shooting.

So I never really had the chance to sit down and have a conversation with him while we were

working, but when we finished he made a point of saying,

let's sit down and have lunch sometime.

And I was delighted and certainly happy to oblige.

So he came over to the apartment I was staying in. I ordered in Indian food and we had curry and we talked about life and family and all kinds of things and we hadn't really talked much about acting.

And then when the conversation started heading in that direction, he said something that really

stood out to me, which was, we shouldn't even be talking about this.

And he said it with a smile on his face.

He wasn't grim or anything.

But I think I understand why he didn't want to talk too much about acting.

Because once you've talked about something, it can sit in your head differently than if you haven't talked about it.

I think acting has a lot to do with momentum, if you will, kind of emotional momentum.

And this is something everyone really experiences, I think,

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