I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.
I think you end up writing things you like. I like seeing actors playing two different parts at the same time. I think it's interesting. It kind of shows you two sides of a person.
I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.
In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.
I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.
I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
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