Brendan Fraser

in this environment where you live in a society of your peers, and you wonder, where are all the adults?

I'm glad things have changed.

I know my own kids have gone to schools as such, and the environment is different now, thankfully.

But it did give me an impression of...

How to proceed.

So while I'm not a Jewish kid, I do know what it feels like to be an outsider looking to be a part of it.

David Green in School of Ties was confronted by bigotry and anti-Semitism.

Then he takes ownership of who he is, but is blamed for a cheating scandal because he's the outsider.

He's the one who can be the sacrificial goat.

I think it holds up.

I struggle with confidence daily, all the time.

And I should.

Because I think I need to be reminded by myself that I am enough.

I don't have anything to prove necessarily any longer.

And I have everything to prove still.

And I don't want to be so comfortable as to rest on the laurels of an accomplishment, an affirmation, an award, for instance, so that I lose the hunger and the desire to continue and grow and learn.

There's so many filmmakers who are incredible that I want to get something from.

Well, what I learned from working with these exalted, esteemed directors is that something I should have known all along, but it's the truth, is they're just people.

Martin Scorsese pushes furniture around himself on the floor to block scenes.

He wants to solicit ideas from actors, and he makes decisions on the spot in the moment to deviate from a plan.