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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.
With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore.
Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
The problem with movies is you are over-rewarded for the work you do. It's hard to give up, and I got used to a certain lifestyle.
Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
I can do a film only if it excites me as an actor.
Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.