In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture ALWAYSSIT next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to PAIR the image up with some POETRY.
If you've got a camera that's two feet away from you, you have to bring it all BACK down. It's a LOT more insular. It's DIFFERENT brush strokes. Whereas on stage, you're PLAYING to people who, depending on the size of the theater, MIGHT be 40 meters away from you.
I ALWAYS put a layer of lip balm first, and then I layer the lipstick on by using a lip BRUSH to HELPGET it into the whole lip and make a REALLY even line.
In TERMS of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of TIME, and you have to paint with slightly broad BRUSHSTROKES because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven TIMES, and it's 395 FEET wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple PAINT on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a GUY's camel-hair coat.
Being a role model is COOL and a GREATHONOR. I'm grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and BRUSH their teeth OFTEN.
Suddenly a single SHOT on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the WHOLE line pushed RAPIDLY forward through the brush.