Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.
Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.