Alan Taylor

I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.