Quotes About Process

I don't think you are ever really done working on something, especially if you can get back into rehearsal.

The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.

The rehearsal process is the biggest gift you can give to the director and to yourself as an actor because it allows you to shape the character and the scenes.

We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.

The excitement of being in a rehearsal room is good for me.

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.

Any rehearsal process - I find, anyway - does have quite an effect on me, and I very much live in that world for the whole period of time that I'm involved with the production. But normally, afterwards with a little bit of space, I can come right back out of it again.

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

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

In TV, it is important to get everything on film as fast as possible. You rehearse every day of the week, and each day, the performance may be changed. The process is more result-oriented than in the movies. It's more about working quickly.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

Every actor prepares differently and to different degrees of privacy. Some want to talk everything out. Others really don't want to talk anything out - or rehearse much.

I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'

When you rehearse a Broadway show, you get two months of rehearsal, while in TV, it's a much shorter process.

The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.

I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.

That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.

We kind of established in Sons of Apollo right from the get go that it would be a very collaborative process musically, but after that, I was going to take the reins and control everything else beyond that the way I did with Dream Theater.

I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

When Bob goes into the studio, he didn't just say, 'I'm going to do one album by itself.' No, we always had leftovers and some that were what you'd call rejects, we have those too.

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.