You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.
As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.
You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.
When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.