Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.
Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.
Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.
There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.
Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.