When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.
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I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.
There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.
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