Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
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When I show up to act in a movie for somebody else, I just want to be nice and helpful and do what they want because I know how difficult it is to make a movie. I don't want to cause any problems. So you show up and do your job, and I think if a director understands that, you don't make a lot of demands.
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.
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.
A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.
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