“Yes, there’s a whole audience ready to devour the next guy or girl, but there’s a
“Yes, there’s a whole audience ready to devour the next guy or girl, but there’s a whole audience of people of my generation who still go to the cinema, who care about good stories, who see their own selves reflected and their experiences reflected.“ "As a male actor, there is a whole new world of opportunities to be those people that you put on screen that people identify with. As a writer and as a director, I feel that…there’s a wealth of stories that have a much richer fabric to them because of [the writer’s or director’s] life experience, and there is no doubt that if you have walked the earth for longer, you have seen more things. Also, you build up the more negative things as well, which is great for drama – regret, loss and pain, those things, which, leading towards drama, create richer characters.”– Joel Edgerton -- source link
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