Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.
I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.
It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.