William H. Macy Quotes
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I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.
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Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.
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Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.
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I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
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The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.
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Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.
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When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.
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You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.
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I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
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I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.
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I think acting is getting better and better.
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That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
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I've studied Stanislavsky, and Mamet taught Stanislavsky, and I studied with Sanford Meisner. But the part of the method that I think is the most fruitful is the method of physical actions. It all comes down to your objective: Nothing else counts except what you want. How you feel will take care of itself.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.
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So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.
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What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.