It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
How come actors feel like they have to give some kind of personal revelation attached to the project?
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.
When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.
For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.
There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.