Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.
Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.
For me, as an actor, it's always about getting out of my own way. I can put so much pressure on myself to keep up and make my director happy instead of being in the moment.
You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience.
I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.
For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.
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