On Television Actors

Television actors are particularly suited to handling the rigors of independent filmmaking. As veteran TV actor Ron Canada once pointed out to me, you don't work long in television if you can't handle anything thrown at you and still get it in the first or second take. An actor that can do that is a godsend when you are low on film, low on sunlight, racing to finish up in a location before you're forced to leave, or simply have to get through eight pages in a day.