Paul Walter Hauser

And in any facet of occupation, that can be a temptation, but it certainly doesn't wield very good results, probably.

I think I was aware of it, but I think you become better at it the older you get, the more you mature.

You don't flip out over the things you used to be so kind of hyper-focused on.

Well, that too, right?

Definitely kids help.

And I think the other thing is like,

I've been very lucky, too.

It's easier to let go of that stuff after you've had some success than if you've never had some.

But as you learn in our industry, it's really weird where so many things are out of your control.

Maybe the company that funded your movie went bankrupt.

Maybe it got acquired in some merger acquisition thing.

Mm-hmm.

Maybe they switched editors midway through.

You can only control what you can control, which is your performance and how you treat people on the day when you make it.

Once again, you don't have those auspices unless you're handed those scripts.

A lot of it, people think I'm being faux humble when I say like, oh, it's God's grace or it's happenstance, but

I mean, that is what that is.

You either get those emails and phone calls and divine appointments at a random party or outing, or you don't.

Yeah, I did stand-up off and on for like 12 years, and then I did improv at UCB in LA.

I did one level of the four, and I did two levels at the IO Theater in Chicago.