In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you've still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things.
My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.
I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.
I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards understood that blood is used in making up the blocks. The flour was gritty, and a leg of mutton turned out to be a limb of a goat of much experience.
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too.
