Matt Bomer Quotes

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

I am mostly concerned about the script. If I get something that excites me, I will do it.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.

I'm very picky when saying yes to a script. I take a very long time to decide myself because I spend a lot of time with this and so to take parts where I think I can take something from my life as well. It must be interesting for me.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.