The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.
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My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart.
It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.
I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.
I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.
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