I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.
A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.
If I’m going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I’m going to lean into my own projects before someone else’s.
When I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously.
I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.
I’m going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don’t know how to attack .
I feel very lucky that when I’m burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.
When I’m tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.
I’ve made it very clear that I’m interested in voiceover work. I mean, I’m always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.
It’s like the most profound accomplishment that I’ve had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.
I’m in full transparency here of “Yeah, I’m trying to find my financing.”
I respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.
It’s priceless what you learn when you actually do. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.
You can’t live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.
I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn’t. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.
The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.
I’ve learned from every director I’ve worked with. Everybody’s style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.
I’m not a drug person. I don’t like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young.
I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you’re a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.
I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.