I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.
If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.
As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.
I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.
When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.
I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.
I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.