For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story that I knew all my life, it was told in a different way. It was told from a very personal point of view.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.
Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Personally, I read a lot of scripts.
A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.