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Joshua Leonard
American
Actor
About the author
I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Love
#Day
#Control
#Job
I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Empathy
We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Film
#Moments
The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Character
#Life
#Practice
#First
#Research
#Circumstances
#Connection
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Film
#Power
#Sound
#Actors
Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Pain
#Joy
Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Time
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Character
#Film
#Movies
#Value
#Development
#Horror
#Connection
We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Self
I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Will
#Faith
I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Want
#Will
#Movies
Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Right
#American
#Sense
#Jobs
#Reality
#Cinema
Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Being
Actors are such an insecure breed.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Actors
I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Film
#Luck
#Project
I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.
Joshua Leonard,
American
Actor
#Worry