I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.
I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.
As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think about much at all, as it turns out. It's very easy. And then when you step into the director's role, there's this whole universe of stuff that you have to pay attention to that's amazing to me.
What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.
I've been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them.