Quotes / Actor-Inspired Element

It was one-eighth of a page, and it said 'Costello executes man kneeling in the marshes'. He looked at that and he goes 'Okay, I can do that, but I think I can make it better. So what I do is, instead of a man kneeling in the marshes, I make it a woman, but I'm not gonna be alone. I put Ray in the scene with me, and I do the thing and I shoot her in the back of the head like it says in the script. But if you leave the camera rolling, I turn to Ray and I say "jeez, she fell funny". Now that's a really sinister thing to say because it means I do this a lot and there's a way people fall. Now you could end the scene there, but if you leave the camera rolling, Ray steps forward and he reveals that he's holding an ax. He's gonna chop her up. Now you could end the scene there, but if you leave the camera rolling, I turn to Ray and say "I think I wanna fuck her again".' And he says 'But if you keep the camera rolling, Ray stops and looks at me and I go "Ahhhhhhhhh!" And that's a sinister thing to do cause we're making a joke outta this whole thing.'

— Matt Damon discussing how Jack Nicholson added elements to a scene from The Departed