For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.
I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
Tell a story. You don't have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good and still tell that story with your face or how you land or your reaction. That's a lost art. Storytelling is a big part of our industry, and if given time, you can do it properly.
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
