When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
We believe that it really celebrates the definition of what an ensemble is all about. I mean there's 74 of us.
When you're dealing with a large ensemble cast, there's a lot of character choices coming and going. He really allowed us to find ourselves on film.
The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off
I'm trying to see the reflection of what I want, it's a fascinating thing the focus is now having all of these things and finding the right people who will create the ensemble that I have originally created in my mind.
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.
I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.
I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.