A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
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You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.
Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.
I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.
As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.
You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.
As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.
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