As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.
As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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.
I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.
Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.
I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.
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.
I enjoy being an actor in my own movies.