You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.
I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.
Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
I can remember on the first day on 'Chatroom,' it was just one scene for the whole day, which was a really nice luxury to have.
There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.
In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.
Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!
Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm happiest.
Henry Frankenstein: Quite a good scene, isn't it? One man, crazy - three very sane spectators!
[deleted scene] Raoul Duke: God's mercy on you swine!
Shaun: [Last scene. Shaun drowns his St George's Cross Flag in a pond then stares mournfully into the camera]
I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.
I have a trainer that I box with. Luckily, on ER, they'll tell me if I have a shirtless scene coming up and I'll have a few weeks to power it out.
I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers.
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.
