You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
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Independent film is for actors that love to act.
There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.
When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.
Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don't want to be that actor, when a poor director is trying to get through a movie, that you're asking at every second to discuss performance.
I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.
It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.
Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.