Actor Filmmaker Quotes

“IN HIS PRESENCE, I FEEL OUR AXIS RECALIBRATING. Where North was once —and for eons — the assigned pull of the Earth, in Sunny’s universe, all magnets drive us South. Or West. Or deep into the core because that’s more interesting to him. He’s a world-creator; he doesn’t walk from A to B the way most humans do, seeing what’s provided then dealing with, lamenting or pondering it. He creates what he wants and when you walk a path with him, you get shaped and reinvented, too. Not against your will, but more in tune with aspects of it, unfolding into the potential of a secret craving, fully funded.

~Amie, getting to know Sunny in The LOOK”
― Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

“But what else can that hypothetical actor-filmmaker do? How does he find meaningful human connection in a world of people who falsely believe they are already connected to him?”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“Some people act as Padma Shri in real life and as political rowdy in movies”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Each time, the fall looked brilliant and effectively dangerous against the green screen, but he wasn’t satisfied until he stuck the landing and heard the rebound clap. Everyone from riggers to grips marked the occasion with good, honest cheers reverberating in the giant, hollow cube.”
― Laurie Perez, Unbraiding: Actor | Producer | Father: A Story in Three Strands

“People outside the industry pruriently ask how he gets through sex scenes, nudity, baring it physically. They miss the point.
Sure, that takes some courage. But, man, it’s ALL like that.
Try crying in front of sixty-three people, most of whom are there to do jobs like lighting your face so the tears are in focus while the snot and spit fall behind — or surrounding you with mics to make sure the sound of your sobbing, disconsolate self falling apart is picked up cleanly, so you won’t have to dub over it in post six months later. That crew of people, expertly watching you turn feral with the grief that’s causing your character to make monumentally bad decisions leading to the epiphany that finally turns it around in the third act. Could anything be more naked, more intimate than tearing your soul inside out in service to the
story?
It’s tantric.
Visceral.”
― Laurie Perez, Unbraiding: Actor | Producer | Father: A Story in Three Strands