You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.
I want to stretch myself as an actor.
I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.
I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.
I like to stretch my acting muscles.
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
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.