When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.
Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don't know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.
Once I finish shooting a film, I usually sit on it to see how we can make it better.
A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it's a crap shoot - you roll the dice.
There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.
You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
In film, I think that you do have a little more time to invest in the character compared to television, where you are shooting from the hip and making quick choices. It is the speed of things that is the major difference - certainly in my experience.