As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.