When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.
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Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.
It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.
You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.
Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.
Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.
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