I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.
When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.
All I want is the defining moment.
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.
I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.
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.