When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
For me, as an actor, it's always about getting out of my own way. I can put so much pressure on myself to keep up and make my director happy instead of being in the moment.
When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.
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.
When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.
As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.
You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
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