I don’t make actors uncomfortable, I just remove the possibility of lying.
RepliesJames was the only one who understood the set: no one was acting, we were all negotiating.
Stanley films like a man auditing human emotion, and somehow that’s why they’re masterpieces.
At least he let you improvise; he made the rest of us perform in slow-motion despair.
Peter, you did seven takes just to prove you could leave talent out of it.
James, you say that like you weren’t secretly enjoying the extra takes.