Performance Ownership Quotes

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have to have a sense of ownership over it and believe that you're bringing something meaningful to it - because that's what all of the developers are doing, and that's what the story demands.

You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.

I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.

Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.

In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.