I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.
I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.
It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?'
You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.
At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.
I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
It's pretty simple to me: we come from a really grounded world where anything you say could be the thing that the scene becomes about. We're always treating it as if we would treat it in real life. It's all observation.
I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.