- The most important thing in any scene is always the people.
- Filmmaking is sometimes an art but it is always a business.
- If music is the sound of life then acting is the impulse of life.
- Inspiration is much more important than technique but to have a technique that makes for inspiration is really something special.
- Where the writer ends the director begins,where the director ends the actor begins,where the actor ends the audience begins.
- Circumstances are to a director what a palet of colors are to a painter.
- Acting is really reacting. Don't just look but see, don't just listen but hear, don't just touch but feel, don't just eat but taste, don't just breathe but smell. Be your own man, never be subservient to anyone, where is it that you are nourished?, how many trips around the world can you take?, how many Rolls Royces can you own?, how many houses can you have?. There are no standards of quality in the business today, everything is take the money and run, you must subscribe to the standards.
- When directing a scene you must resort to anything, for example if the scene requires a room full of people to run out in a frantic life threatening state, the director could yell that there is a fire in the building even though there really isn't any to get the reaction he wants from the actors.
- The directors job is to invade the actors mind to the point with stimulation to make them consider what it means.
- In any scene always make the other actor your object of attention.
- The difference between acting for results and naturalistic or realistic acting is like the difference between crap and fat roast beef.
- Deal in ultimates,you might as well get killed by a lion as well as a mouse.
- Every great film ,novel, play, etc., always has the underlying notion of survival.
- Words are just the tip of the iceberg, you must understand the necessity to physicalize the impulse. "A punch in the face is worth a thousand I hate you's".
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