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Check-out this neat montage of strong moments from some of Gena Rowlands' best screen performances. She provides a few thoughts on acting here too.
Overall, we are reminded of how Rowlands created a string of performances of immense power. She was not frightened of confronting deep...
Don't be frightened of creative choices. These are the ones that feel a little bit risky, that may just get us into a little bit of trouble. They leap out of the imagination unexpectedly, and they feel right but we don't quite understand them and...
Some people only hear what they want to hear. Some people only see what they want to see. We tend to respond to a work via the prism of our own value system: a scene could be hilariously funny for one person, but utterly obscene...
"I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions… I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on...
1. If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it's your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of existence.
2. The free soul is rare but you know it...
Do I really want to be an actor, or is it just an idea in my head that will pass in time?
Once that has been answered positively, the new question will be...
There's always more work to do. It's never done. The problem with overloading ourselves with too many tasks at any given moment however, is that it leads to panicky decision-making, a diminution in our level of performance, fatigue and the placing of too much meaning...
The audience will only experience our work as it is, no more no less.
That's why it's so important to strive for truth in our work. If the work is true, the audience's experience will be true. But if the work is false, then the audiences'...
When a general fatigue sets in, when we start to feel emotionally deprived, it means that it's time to nourish ourselves with the things that fascinate us and inspire us - reading, knowledge, cinema, music, new ideas, whatever does it for you.
Our mind and spirit...
