You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.
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Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.
I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.
The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.
You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.