My first movie was totally improvised.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.
I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.
Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.
Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.