We Want To Be Seen

Sometimes People Don't Rehearse At All, But You Might Have Had A Chance To Rehearse For A Few Days, Or Even More Than That. Then In The Moment When The Camera's Running Is The Only Time It Matters. So Whatever You've Discussed Or Thought About Or Discussed With The Director, The Other Actors, Hopefully There's A Part Of The Experience That You've Left Open So That Only In That Moment The Camera Catches It. That's Of Course The Hardest Thing To Do Because Everything Is Planned And You Have Thought About It In Advance.

Movies Are Details. Movies Are Billions Of Details That Come Into A Certain Moment. So With All The Years And Months And Weeks And Days And Minutes Of Preparation, Then Finally You're Shooting And It All Comes Down To These Moments When You're Shooting, Which Is Sort Of Insane When You Think About It. The Details Make A Difference.

You Have To Learn To Deal With Your Own, For Want Of A Better Word, Insecurities, Fears. They Don't Go Away. And That's Normal. It's Human. You Don't Ever Really Want To Lose That. What You Want To Do Is Learn To Manage It And To Work With Yourself. But There's A Part Of You That Has Anticipation And Fear. And So The Important Thing To Know Is That There's Nothing Wrong With That And That That's Normal. You Have To Learn How To Deal With It, Certainly, But It Doesn't Keep You From Doing It. And That Doesn't Go Away Ever.

We All Perform Our Lives In A Way. And The Actor Is A Perfect Metaphor To Get At That Theme Of "how Do We Find Our Authentic Selves?" And That We All - Whether We're Actors Or Not - Perform Ourselves. As A Way Of Searching. As A Way Of Fumbling Around And Trying To Say, Is This My Voice? Is This Who I Am?

Most Of The People That I've Worked With When Shooting Films That I Really Respect, There Is A Point Which You Do Become Obsessed In A Good Way. And Because It's A Collaborative Medium, You're Not By Yourself In A Room Tearing Your Hair Out, You're In A Room With A Bunch Of People. And We're All Tearing Our Hairs Out, Or Trying To Get Something Right, Or Caring Deeply About Something. But That's Fun.