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The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.

You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

I try to really focus on the actors I'm working with and kind of read and respond to their behavior.

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention. Everywhere you go, you know?

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.