Ben Schnetzer on drawing
Ben Schnetzer7 quotes“I like charcoal drawing a lot. I’m not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I’m on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I’m in and turn it into an art studio.”
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Sometimes I find myself at three o’clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I’d like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.
Ben SchnetzerBen Schnetzer A lot of times, when you’re seeing something that you’ve done, you’re thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.
Ben SchnetzerBen Schnetzer Whatever the genre of film you’re doing and whatever the source material is, you have to adapt to the different genre, but it’s the same work, as an actor. You’re just trying to ground it in reality and find your truth in it.
Ben SchnetzerBen Schnetzer Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after a while. Every now and then I’ll say “dude” or I’ll say “bro,” and people will laugh.
Ben SchnetzerBen Schnetzer When you’re doing a play, you don’t always have a practical world that you’re working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
Ben SchnetzerBen Schnetzer I’m a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.
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