Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At the end of the day, you're handing your performance over. If a director says after a take, 'You know what, try it just really angry. Just get furious'... you're like, 'Well, I don't know if I want to give you that because I don't know if I trust what you're going to do with it.'
To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.
I feed off variety. I don't want to repeat myself if I can help it, but once they've seen you doing one thing, directors often just want you to do it again.
I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.
Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.
It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?