Mark Duplass Quotes

When I do 'Sweet Tooth,' really, whatever I want to do with the characters kind of goes. I'm sort of in charge.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

I believe in giving actors the freedom to express themselves, and adding more to whatever is written.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.

Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

As an actor, I have no limitation. I will do whatever excites me.

At 'Wicked,' they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles.

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

It's strange not to allow the actor some input and breathing room into what was written on the page - it is their job to make it come alive.

I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like, the worst. It turns into a ska song even if I'm trying to write like a horror movie sound track or something.

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they felt like there was impulse they wanted to follow, if it was taking the scene out of order or adding something, that you should always feel free to do that.