Sofia Boutella Quotes

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

Directing is a whole series of things that would be awkward socially. But I love that. I love actors. Talking with them, touching, laughing, crying.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.