I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don`t already know?
Hollywood embraced me in the late `80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it`s about corporate mentality, box office, youth.