Doctor Who' has always been a landmark show, but I feel it's becoming an even more landmark show due the stories that are being written, and the actors being cast to represent them.
You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact that you don't have to, the actors' schedules are all over the place, and it's difficult to get everyone in the same room.
Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.
I want authenticity. And rarely do actors - more specifically, black actors - get a chance to be authentic on film and television.
I got a chance to work with Judi Dench in almost every scene. How many Indian actors get that chance?
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.
A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.
I get very excited when I get a chance to work with actors who are as passionate as I am.
If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.
What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.
If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.
I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.
You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.