Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
A lot of people say actions are stronger than words, and I think, in acting, this is a very accurate thing.
That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.
Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.
To make 'Sound of My Voice,' we had to conceive the entire world and understand it holistically. If you want to show less in a movie, you've got to figure out more.
