When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.
I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.
I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.
When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.
On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue.
Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.
Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.