Instinctive Approach Quotes

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going to happen, and the pace. But I think if I stop to think about it in an abstract sense, I feel very daunted. I just try to enter into the story and feel my way through it. It's a very murky, intuitive way of going about it.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.