Things Either Become Unclear In A Story

A Lot Of Acting Is Working With Your Own Psyche In Order To Allow Yourself To Be Open And Reveal Yourself. But Then Of Course There's A Healthy Part Of You That Says, "well, Don't Do That." You Know, You're Going To Be In Front Of People. You Could Look Foolish. You Could Get It Wrong. You Could Be Too Big Or Too Small Or Not Realistic Or Whatever Those Things Are. People Might Criticize You. There's All Kinds Of Reasons Not To Be Open. But You Do Want To Be Open.

In A Film, If You Can Capture What's Going On Underneath, You Can Begin To Make A Connection Between The Character And The People Watching It.

One Of The Things On A Very Practical Level As An Actor Or Actress Is That When You Do A Play, You Do The Entire Story Every Time You Do It. You Have Eight Shows A Week. You Have A Rehearsal Process Of Four To Five To Six Weeks. And Then Once You're In Performance, Everybody Else Goes Away And You're There With Your Fellow Actors And The Audience And The Material And Your Life Becomes About That. And You Go Through The Story From The Beginning To The End Every Time You Do It And Depending On How Long You Do It, That's Where The Craft Comes In.

If You Push In Every Time There's A Big Moment, Then The Tenth Time You Push In, You're Not Going To Get The Same Effect. Or If You Have Too Many Close Ups, Then When You Have A Big Moment And You Want A Close-up In Order To Make A Point, It Doesn't Mean Anything Because You've Already Been Doing Close-ups. It's Like Writing In All Capitals. Then After A While That Doesn't Mean Anything. So, Just Because You Can Do Something With A Camera Doesn't Mean You Should.

You Have To Learn To Deal With Your Own, For Want Of A Better Word, Insecurities, Fears. They Don't Go Away. And That's Normal. It's Human. You Don't Ever Really Want To Lose That. What You Want To Do Is Learn To Manage It And To Work With Yourself. But There's A Part Of You That Has Anticipation And Fear. And So The Important Thing To Know Is That There's Nothing Wrong With That And That That's Normal. You Have To Learn How To Deal With It, Certainly, But It Doesn't Keep You From Doing It. And That Doesn't Go Away Ever.