On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have a thing for working with wounded characters.
There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.
After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'
My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.
Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.