Jes Macallan Quotes

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch.

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.