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...
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...
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...
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...
"Mutual Admiration Society (2014) is the new upcoming collaborative feature film by Rouzbeh Rashidi and James Devereaux. Mutual Admiration Society is an abstract experimental crime movie and the sixth feature length film by Rashidi and Devereaux."
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Sometimes, we develop an emotional attachment to a piece of work, or to a performance. Perhaps, for us, it was a real creative victory, perhaps we finally gave the kind of performance we always wanted to (maybe a situation not as common as we would...
Closing out a performance, an audition, a production, a script, or any creative endeavour, can prove to be extremely difficult because there is a tendency to believe that, as we are near the end, we must be tired ("oh look, I'm near the end, I'm...
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Mutual Admiration Society (2014) is the new upcoming collaborative feature film by Rouzbeh Rashidi and James Devereaux. The film was shot in London and simultaneously edited in Dublin.
Mutual Admiration Society is an abstract experimental crime movie and the sixth feature length film by Rashidi-Devereaux Cinema
More info...
The remarkable outpouring of sadness in response to Philip Seymour Hoffman's death, shows us just how much he and his work meant to people.
He reminds us that the work of an actor can be noble and worthwhile and inspiring.
His passing is a tragedy. Hopefully there will...