Liam Neeson was quoted recently as saying he was getting out of film because it was a director's medium and not an actor's medium and that actors are treated like puppets. I wanted to know how the technological advances you're making in this film might be hastening that process. Well, I'm not sure if Liam is retiring. I'm not sure that's absolutely true. Don't believe everything you read in the newspaper.
Film is a director's medium, there's no question about that.
An actor on the stage is pretty much free to do whatever he wants. If he wants to go to work the next day, he sort of has to listen to what the director says. But in film, the director can change the actor's performance through the editing process, hopefully to make it better. So, there is that striving. I think digital technology actually makes it easier for the actors because a lot of the difficult parts of getting the performance can be fused together much more easily.