Tuesday, May 10, 2011

How much of your creativity is inspired from within you versus being fueled by those around you?

 In an interview Jian Ghomeshi had with Catherine O'Hara on Q (October of 2009 in regards to her experiences around the movie Wild Things), he brought up this question to which Ms. O'Hara responded:



"Oh, I’m very fueled by those around me and I love acting in a pack. You get to work with great people, it’s just the best.

"And you go in with as many ideas as you can, you want to go in with something to offer, (but) maybe it’s because of my training in Second City, I just love…"

Jian: It’s almost like jamming, right?

"It is. We do it with each other. I don’t know if they’d say it the same way, if they fed off of me as much as I fed off of them but you know, in life… maybe I’m just too malleable or too sensitive to how people talk to me. What I’m trying to say is, I develop characters as much from my own head as how people treat me in their character. They’re in character and by the way they treat me, then I see more of my history with them and I see where we’re at and how we feel about each other. It just gives. We give each other so much."




To hear the podcast of this interview in its entirety, go to cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/qinterviews.xml.