We hear the phrase “independent filmmaker”* too much these days, and most times it’s used inaccurately.
Independence has got nothing whatsoever to do with the means of production or lack thereof - I've known people who've self-financed their productions and censor themselves as though they were...
Humiliation is kissing the ass of someone who has threatened us in order to please them. The most common example of this of course, is the employer, who says "unless you do a b and c, you're out". Humiliation kicks in when the threat is...
Dealing with other human beings can be exhausting, demoralising and incomprehensible. It's like an endurance test designed by somebody with a particularly cruel imagination. A colleague, who we thought we had a good working relationship with, slights us for no apparent reason. A potential employer...
By committing to a task we are telling ourselves that it is important, and consequently, our mind and body are energised. If you think about acting in a scene, whenever we are not properly committed to our action, our performance is unfocussed, it lacks precision and our intensity is...
It's amazing how many people hold back from going for the things they really want because they're worried that other people might think they don't deserve to have them.
The reality is, these "other people" are not as obsessed about what we're doing (or intend to...
I was struck recently when in an interview, an actress said of sex scenes she had done in a recent movie:"it was kind of humiliating sometimes, I was feeling like a prostitute."I don't know about you but I didn't go into acting in order to...
The character is an illusion created in the mind of the viewer by the juxtaposition of the intentions of the actor and the fiction of the script. The character is not real. Macbeth is not real. Jaws is not real. Hannibal Lector is not real,...
Always strange when actors who are out of work say they're writing scripts in order to stay busy. Nobody gave them permission to write scripts but they do so anyway. Yet, when it comes to acting they feel that they need to wait to be...
Sometimes we can get so caught up in the minutiae of day to day tasks that we can no longer see the woods from the trees. We get so wrapped up in the workload of getting a production off the ground or in the endless...
