Shiloh Fernandez Quotes

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I consider myself an actor that tries to have as many tools as possible in the bag. And I think that includes the method, then of course it includes some improv techniques, and includes all kinds of different things, because you never know when you're going to have to work on something and in what way.

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences I don't have, I try to search out and get firsthand experiences of similar sorts so I have something to fantasize about.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

I was amazed by the kind of preparation Hollywood actors do for their roles.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

I'm not a Method actress. I work in the present, the day-to-day.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.