I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.
I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set.
I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more - disgust and anger. What are they saying? They'd prefer not to know, not to understand? They'd prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn't that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens?
I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.
The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.
I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.
Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.
The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
