I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.
There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.
The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me.
The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.