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Actors should never give interviews.
-Daniel Day-Lewis
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Actors Should Never Give Interviews.

Daniel Day-Lewis
Actors should never give interviews.
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Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. and many, many, if not most interviews have that character. the interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. you should not know what you're going to hear. you should be surprised.
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I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ if more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. the good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. any script is enough of a lie anyway. (what experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? killing someone?) what’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.
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The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. no one tries to laugh except bad actors. no one tries to cry except bad actors. how a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. i know how the scene is going to end before it ends.
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I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and i always think it's crap. anybody who knows anything about it knows that good actors do both - they do inside-outward and they do outside-inward. you can't not do both.
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You work with every actor differently. it's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. other children you back off of a little bit and let them be. it's the same way with actors. some actors need a lot of hand holding. other actors like to be let be and you let them go. some actors like to be nudged just a little bit. some actors don't mind line readings.
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I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling that if they make mistakes, then as a director, you'll know how to help them. if you're able to convey that, then the actors will give you wonderful performances. as well as the author, you have to write scenes that give the actors the opportunity to show what they're capable of.
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