The Great Acting Blog: “Own Your Creativity”
Own your creativity and the form you give it. People come and go. But your creativity will always remain. ...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “In Life, Facing The Truth Is A Choice”
On stage or in front of camera we take action. We make that commitment to got for it and we just deal with whatever is thrown at us thereafter. In life away from performance however, we hesitate, we relentlessly go over our plans to the extent...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Generosity Drives Our Finest Work”
Mass media is driven by coercion rather than by generosity - preposterously budgeted movies are marketed to us with such aggression, with such force and profligacy, that we go to see them more out of fear than any real interest. These films do not offer...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Collaborate With Actor-Artists To Make Your Work Stronger”
If you're trying to get a truly artistic project off the ground, then finding actors with a similar culture to your own, a similar outlook, a feel for a similar aesthetic, can be as important as technical ability. Certainly this is true if you want...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Trouble With A Little Bit Of Knowledge”
Preconceptions are too often used as an excuse for inaction; "oh, I won't bother trying to get that project off the ground because the little I know about it suggests to me that it probably won't work." Truth is, we don't really know until we...
Read More“Mutual Admiration Society is the coolest, coldest, emptiest, flattest, most minimalist, most ruthless, most bizarre hitman man film ever made”
New blogpost up about the making of Mutual Admiration Society. Check it out here. ...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Actor’s Life Is A Ride To Be Enjoyed”
Actors who say that they'll quit if their career is not at a certain point by a certain age, are setting themselves up for a fall. Why? Because the actor is not fully in control of what happens in his career, and so he cannot...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “A Strange And Provocative Manifesto On Creativity”
Placed alongside eachother, the following quotes on the nature of creativity and the artistic process, form a fascinating tapestry of insight. Creativity is a mysterious process, it is not intellectual and comes from a place we do not fully comprehend. I offer the following patchwork of...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Commit To The Work You Love”
It's frightening to commit to doing work we love. It's much more comforting to come up with a bunch of excuses and only do work we don't really care about or even work we hate. Committing to the work we love, raises the stakes for...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Audience’s Sweet Delight”
I have written previously about the important impact the work of Jim Jarmusch has had upon me - but this evening I will find myself at a previewing screening of his new picture, Only Lovers Left Alive, which is then followed by a live show...
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