But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.
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In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.
I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.
The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.
But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.
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.
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.
I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.