As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.
I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.
I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.
I prefer to watch people.
I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.
I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.
I just watch a lot of different films and different TV shows. Really for me, it's just looking at how people react to different shows in different genres. For me, it's more a study of people than a study of acting.
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.
Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
