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For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.