My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.
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I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.
I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.
I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.
By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.
I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
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