Tracy Letts

Yeah, I'm excited about it, sure.

I love Robert Duvall.

You know, when he died, he died right around the same time as Frederick Wiseman.

They died the same day or maybe a day apart.

And my first thought was,

well, we've lost our greatest actor and our greatest documentarian, uh, at the same time.

And then I thought, well, I'm given the superlative.

Maybe that's not the case.

Maybe, uh, maybe I should say my favorite actor or one of my favorite actors because people value different things in their actors.

Some people love a movie star.

Most people love a movie star and Duvall was a movie star, but he was also a character actor and, uh, and to that guy.

And, uh,

He could be the lead in movies, but more often than not, a supporting player.

And I realized that when I thought of him as our greatest actor, what I was thinking of, he's the kind of actor that I especially admire.

He...

exemplified, for me, what great screen acting is.

That's what I... When you mention a great screen actor, he's one of the first people I think of.

Well, what is that, though?

What does that mean?

Well...