That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.
I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.
Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting.
I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.
I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.
It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.
I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.