“One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems.”
Shannon turned to acting as a laboratory for exploring human behavior, using characters—real or imagined—to test solutions to his own life problems.
In simple terms: Acting is a personal problem‑solving lab.
Art as self‑exploration.
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Projecting personal issues onto characters may blur boundaries and hinder objective self‑assessment.
