'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'The Ides of March' was a fairly cynical film.
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.
I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.
Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important.
Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want to work with the director.
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