Rider Strong Quotes

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film.

With Fincher, you can take chances and try things. And what happens is that any pretension and preparation you've done, all the square, intellectual work, you can't keep that up for 40 takes. It breaks down, and new things start popping up. This, for me, is the most exciting thing about film-making.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

My directing style has changed over the years. I allow things to breathe a lot more.

I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if the director and my fellow actors are okay with me playing with it a little bit, then I definitely want to play with it.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

Sometimes with films you have a freedom to be able to, Okay, we got that take so let's try another one where suddenly I'll say this, or you'll get to improv. You can't do that with stage. We have to make it new every time, and also within the structured settings.

I think there's always this idea in your head, but you have to allow the film to take its own course.

I always try to do more than one or two takes if we have the time.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.

In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.