I've always wanted to get into indie film.

Chris Doubek

Categorized in : Indie Always Get Film

A lot of those early indie movies - 'Smoke Signals,' 'Eat Drink Man Woman,' 'Boyz n the Hood' - there was a different aesthetic; everyone was telling stories that were like, 'This is new and different. Let's do it.'

woman man aesthetic smoke

With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.

doing you action ideas

Jack Lemmon always said you can't learn how to act without doing theatre, and I agree with that. Because anyone can do a character for a take, but can you do one for 40 minutes at a time?

you theatre time character

I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.

words think me action

I think that's what you're doing when you go see a movie... projecting yourself into that situation. The more you can feel or see the thoughts of the character, I think the more you can live in that world.

thoughts yourself you character