The life of Adam Driver

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For him, “making a movie is like having to take a piss: it’s so urgent.” He’s a former Marine turned star of indie dramas and Hollywood blockbusters.  This is the story of Adam Driver.

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00:00As an actor, your job is to kind of be invisible, in a way.

00:05You're supposed to watch and be a spy,

00:07and live life and have experience,

00:10and make mistakes,

00:12and when suddenly that attention's on you,

00:14it makes you self-conscious.

00:30piano plays

00:40I think making a living as an actor

00:43is a miracle in and of itself,

00:45but to get to do the things

00:48that I've got a chance to do

00:53on top of it is pretty kind of beyond,

00:55but I would have been totally happy

00:58you know, making a living as an actor.

01:28piano plays

01:32If you know someone

01:35where you're in the room together

01:37and it's second nature,

01:38and suddenly that's not there anymore,

01:40it can be a violent thing,

01:41where suddenly you, internally I mean,

01:43not physically violent,

01:44where you lose love

01:46and you don't know how to articulate it.

01:48piano plays

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02:28piano plays

02:58I think in the military I learned

03:01a lot about working as a unit.

03:03It's like a team, it's a team sport,

03:06making a film.

03:08It doesn't really rest on one person.

03:10And making sure that you're doing your job

03:13in support of everybody else's job

03:15is how they're very similar.

03:17So I think I took that from it.

03:28piano plays

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04:06You try to make everything

04:08as personal as possible,

04:09and you know, do those things

04:10of trying to tell the truth

04:11and say it and mean it,

04:12and hopefully if you're surrounded

04:14by people who are supportive

04:16and are there,

04:17then you know,

04:18hopefully something will happen.

04:20piano plays

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05:15He just gets better, better and better.

05:18I just think that he is, you know,

05:20one of the greatest directors that is alive

05:23and we'll work with him on anything

05:26to a Colgate commercial.

05:28I'd do it with him.

05:30electronic music plays

05:52I like this phrase

05:53that you often quote,

05:55making a movie is like

05:56having to take a piss.

05:57It's so urgent, I love that.

05:59So what do you mean by that exactly?

06:01That it has to come from a place of need

06:04and be urgent.

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