Most of stuff I audition for is stuff I think is socially relevant. Ben Schnetzer More Quotes by Ben Schnetzer More Quotes From Ben Schnetzer I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge. Ben Schnetzer technology use challenges I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I'm in and turn it into an art studio. Ben Schnetzer drawing ambition art Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor. Ben Schnetzer morning art thinking Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after a while. Every now and then I'll say "dude" or I'll say "bro," and people will laugh. Ben Schnetzer drama people school I've never felt more American than I did when I moved to England. It becomes a real kind of part of your identity: "Oh, Ben. He's the American guy." I think when you say you're from New York you get a different reception then if you just say, "I'm American." So I'd always kind of make sure I was a New Yorker first. Ben Schnetzer real new-york thinking If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie. Ben Schnetzer rejection actors jobs Whatever the genre of film you're doing and whatever the source material is, you have to adapt to the different genre, but it's the same work, as an actor. You're just trying to ground it in reality and find your truth in it. Ben Schnetzer different trying reality A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product. Ben Schnetzer products done thinking When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself. Ben Schnetzer practicals play world I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work. Ben Schnetzer grateful work people past I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it's not always what you want. It's not always what you expect. It's not always what you imagined or hoped. But it's one of the most important things in the world. Ben Schnetzer you brother journey world I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself. Ben Schnetzer challenge yourself you opportunity When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with. Ben Schnetzer place never you showing-up I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it. Ben Schnetzer think experience brother men When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K. Ben Schnetzer feel admire work school If I audition for a job that I don't get, to be honest with you, I'd rather my friend get it. I think there also has to be an acknowledgement of the fact that, as an actor, being in employment is not the norm. Ben Schnetzer friend job think you I left drama school to do 'The Book Thief' - it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience. Ben Schnetzer good me experience learning I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. Ben Schnetzer start think drama school No matter how cold you are or how hungry you are, you might be warm tomorrow. Ben Schnetzer you cold tomorrow matter It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work. Ben Schnetzer yourself you work thinking
