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. ...
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The 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: “Bring A Unique Vision To The World”
"Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen." - Robert Bresson I've always loved that quote. It arouses the courage needed to pursue your own individual vision, to trust your own point of view. The tendency in our culture is to do what everyone...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Remain Open To The Art You Feel Within Yourself”
It's so easy to allow the crush of daily life to dampen our creative spirits. Similarly with professional struggles and disappointments. Experience can lead us to narrow down our world in order to trick ourselves into thinking we have more control over it, and so...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Disciplined Playfulness – Michel Simon In Jean Renoir’s Boudu Saved From Drowning”
Michel Simon plays Boudu, a Parisian tramp who attempts suicide by jumping into the Seine, only for his effort to be thwarted when a local bookseller rescues him. The bookseller brings Boudu into his household, giving him a place to stay as well as a...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Our Remarkable Story”
The actor's life rarely unfolds in the way we thought it would. We set out with all kinds of ideas in our heads and then we're rudely interrupted by that thing they call reality. It takes a while to make the essential correction, to hold...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Unlocking Your Creativity”
Concrete acting technique not only breeds confidence, it is also the catalyst for the actor's creativity. The script is not the catalyst, nor is the director, it is technique. Technique helps the actor to take his attention off himself and focus it on something more compelling....
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “Be Your Own Perfect Director”
To follow on from yesterday's post, about how fear of making mistakes kills creativity - one of the things that hasn't been mentioned is our own response to ourselves whenever we make a mistake. How you treat yourself when you make a mistake affects how much...
Read MoreThe Great Acting Blog: “The Independent Actor”
One of the key points for actors in John Cleese's lecture on creativity is the notion that we cannot be creative if we fear making mistakes. I believe this to be true, our creative juices just dry up in such situations. It's especially poignant for...
Read MoreJohn Cleese On Creativity – Lecture Notes | The Great Acting Blog
Cleese says there are five factors needed for creativity: 1. Space. 2. Time. 3. Time 4. Confidence. 5. Humour. 1. Says we can't become playful and therefore creative if we're under our usual pressures. We have to create space for ourselves away from those demands....
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