I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.
As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.
I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.
I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.
I was not easy to cast, but also, I have never been typecast.
Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.