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Essentially what actors do is put colors on a palette for directors to paint with.

There are many different reasons why people take parts. For me, there are basically two: one is economic -- you have to keep working, pay the rent; that's a given. The other one, for me, usually has nothing to do with the overall film - whether the script is good, whom I'm working with, whether it's going to get good reviews -- it's just the part, the character. Is this somebody whose shoes I want to live in for four months? If I don't instinctively answer 'yes' to that question, I shouldn't be doing the movie.

Each take is essentially a one-act play called 'Now' ... I try not to think myself into any kind of structure ahead of time, because it just gets in the way of being loose.

[2025] It used to be that the most homogenized, saccharine, easy to take vanilla stuff dramatically in the world was TV, and movies handled the edgy, crazy, over-the-line stuff. Now that's changed. Movies now feel, to me, to a great extent, like giant amusement park rides and TV examines the edgier, darker, more personal stuff.