Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like to be too rigid in how I plan my shots. It's different if you have weeks to rehearse and you can rehearse on your sets or in your locations and you can plan that out with your actors, but in modern independent filmmaking, you don't really have that time. You have to have a certain level of improvisation.
Eric BalfourAt a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.
Eric BalfourI believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.
Eric Balfour