I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.
You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.
I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.
A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.
Vivek Oberoi is the most over rated actor in Hindi cinema
I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage. But in a movie, it has to be real, and the characters have to look entirely real because it's being done as a faux documentary, so there are even fewer actors that can do that on film.
What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.
It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.
This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
Actors' careers are random with a capital "R. "
Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it. '
Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other actors look really, really good.
Between pets, comedy and toys, I try to surround myself with as much fun stuff as I can. That's how I pick projects. It's about whether I'm going to enjoy myself, enjoy the other actors, and enjoy the other people that I'm working with.
Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.
In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.
