illusionsofforever:“The further the character is from me the better. That’s always the
illusionsofforever: “The further the character is from me the better. That’s always the biggest turn on to me as an actor. […] I think it’s just happenstance though that some of these characters tend to be dark, it’s not necessarily what I go looking for. I think once I get to know these characters they all feel different to me because I know them so intimately. So it’s hard to kind of call them all dark.” – Paul Dano“In everything I’d seen him in I’d always been drawn to his performances and intrigued by the choices he makes. Even though he’s played a lot of unusual or dark characters, you could always feel there was a real sensitivity there […]” – Bill Pohlad, director of Love and Mercy (2015)“He’s deeply intuitive. What I noticed is that he’d go through this very interior process in order to bring out all the exterior physicalities and things that have to do with acting. He examines things from every angle. Paul doesn’t take a role that he doesn’t feel challenges him.” – Oren Moverman, screenwriter of Love and Mercy (2015) -- source link