Jeremy Podeswa Quotes

There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me.

When I find those actors who are going to work that hard and collaborate that deeply, my role is to make sure there's a whole lot there for them to work with.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

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

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

Scene study is isolated. I suppose it's interesting, but I don't think it really teaches you about a throughline. A throughline is something you feel when you do one scene followed by another followed by another.

The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.

With most good scripts and good shows, they expect the actor to bring some of their ideas to the backstory of the character. It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out during the process.

Love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play, but that comes down to the script. So, it's important that it's a good script with good, truthful characters and truthful subjects.

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

I am a complete director's actor.

Sometimes you get the luxury of having a script for a really long time, and you can get to talk with the director or the producers, and evolve with the role.

I never do any research for my roles.

When you play guest parts, you play your story in a very urgent kind of way.

I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story.

I look at the story and see what I have got to do in the film. Sometimes the story is great, set-up is good but there isn't much for you to do. I don't want to do that.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.