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The Great Acting Blog: “Actor As Auteur – Woody Allen”

20.06.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 71 Comments

“the idea of an actor who becomes the writer, the director, the true auteur, who places himself at the centre of that cinematic universe consistently through a number of films so that ultimately the persona does enter the culture” - Annette Insdor...

Why Actors Quit | The Great Acting Blog

13.06.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

Orson Welles in Chimes At Midnight, inspiring. I ran into an old actor friend of mine recently, who, when I asked him how it was going, replied; “I'm not doing it anymore”, and that he had turned the temporary contract of his day job into...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Right Trajectory”

05.06.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 15 Comments

The last few years, for me, have been about accomplishing very specific goals artistically, to find the correct artistic configuration (which takes longer than you might think), and getting my various working processes to work in harmony with each...

The Great Acting Blog: “Will It Stop Raining In Summer”

29.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Possible location for Will It Stop Raining In Summer Will It Stop Raining In Summer will be our next short film. It's a love triangle thriller, about Roger, who is having an affair with Beryl, but every-time they meet-up, Beryl's husband, Maurice,...

The Great Acting Blog: “Life Through The Dramatic Prism”

23.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

"There are musicians who practice all the time but we actors are not able to do that. We don't have an instrument, except if you say we are our own instrument, and yet I always try to continue searching and working for the moment where...

The Great Acting Blog: “Only Worry About Action”

16.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Check out this quick teaser for our new short, Phone Box Gun. My action in the scene above, was to get my scene partner to agree with me (within the fiction of script, this amounted to Bob getting Vincent to let him buy him a...

The Great Acting Blog: “Some Thoughts On Self-Producing”

09.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

I'm often an advocate on this blog, of actors being their own bosses, creating their own productions, the reasons for doing so are too numerous to mention here, but in the modern era I would say it's essential rather than an option. Having recentl...

The Great Acting Blog: “Stills From Phone Box Gun”

06.05.2012 , Uncategorized , 1 Comment

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The Great Acting Blog: “The Acting Style Of Phone Box Gun”

02.05.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Phone Box Gun, my new short film, will be a minimalist heist movie, which I intend to shoot in black and white. It's about a young man, Vincent, who needs cash in order to visit his long lost sister in Mexico, and so, under the...

The Great Acting Blog: “Rewarding & Enrichiching – Being An Individual Creative Artist”

25.04.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 17 Comments

Check out this clip, where Mickey, a businessman, verbally dismantles a competitor (contains rude words). In 2008, I wrote my first, and, as yet, my last one man play, called The Call. It was about a businessman, called Mickey, who, upon learning ...

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