The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.
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It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.
Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.
A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.
When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.
I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.
The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.