Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them – they’ll tell you who they are and what they’re up to.
We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that’s where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.
I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.
When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.
Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.
I don’t do well when I don’t work.
When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.
In college, it’s very easy to maintain your female friendships because you’re in such close proximity all the time.
I think it’s really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.
I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don’t like the writing, I don’t like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing.
I love shooting in New York because I love the city. Ultimately, I like doing it there and the city is important to the story, but it can be hard to shoot where you live too because it is so all-absorbing.
If you’re with one person, then you don’t have to meet other people. It’s like when you’re acting in a movie, you don’t have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.
I can say I’m a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don’t have to date because dating is horrible.
There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.
Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.
I’m just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.
Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.
In relationships, you learn a million things. I’m sure a therapist can tell you about it.
Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they’re a mess in a way that’s palatable. I like that.
I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots with extras, I have to say. I don’t mind extras in other scenes, but I love New York City streets just as they look. I don’t even care if someone looks at the camera. It doesn’t bother me.
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that’s basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.