As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life that you're making a movie.
I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild it's great to be a part of and watch.
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting they're dressing the scene they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge' I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'
Once we got over the origin story we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart more humor.
We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.