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Don’t Wait For Permission | The Great Acting Blog

14.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I recently saw Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise on the big screen at the BFI, it's been a long-time favourite film of mine, and I was delighted to finally be able to see it in a theatre. Jarmusch made the film in the early 80s using...

The Great Acting Blog: “Some Words From The Great Actor-Producer, John Cassavetes”

For those who are worried that producing work would cost them their relentless focus on acting, that they would be spreading themselves too thin - here's some words of wisdom from one of the greatest actor-producers of them all, John Cassavetes. For those who don't...

The Great Acting Blog: “5 Great Artists On Independence And Disobedience”

26.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Think for yourself, have the strength to draw your own conclusions, maintain your independence in a world which increasingly tries to tame us. Stand your ground, never compromise, act with integrity. “The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how...

The Great Acting Blog: “Create Your Own Mentor”

19.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Perhaps you don't have anyone to mentor you. Perhaps the people you'd like to have as mentors are not accessible to you or you don't know anyone that could fit the bill. Create one yourself. You don't actually have to meet your mentor(s), it isn't about having a...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Way Of Independence And Peace”

27.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Often, schmoozing and doing favours for colleagues is a means of gaining control over them (as is bullying, conversely - schmoozing can quickly turn into bullying and vice versa). The schmoozer intends to take advantage of the schmoozed, to use them. Ultimately, they want something...

The Great Acting Blog: “Tilda Swinton Has Never Auditioned For A Role”

20.04.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Apart from for the Royal Shakespeare Company when she was first starting out, Tilda Swinton has never auditioned for a role. Never. All of those wonderful films for artists such as Derek Jarman, Bela Tarr and Jim Jarmusch, and she never auditioned. On her...

The Great Acting Blog: “Don’t Be A Coward, Be An Artist”

27.01.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

Actors have been brainwashed to believe that they only exist, that they only have any value, if they do a certain kind of work given to them by a certain kind of person. This state of affairs works (even if not very productively) for those...

The Great Acting Blog: “Independence”

12.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

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...

Noirish Project Blog: “Independence”

11.10.2013 , Uncategorized , 13 Comments

We hear the phrase "independent filmmaker" too much these days, and most times it's used in-accurately. It's time to repeat on old mantra. Independence has got nothing whatsoever to do with the means of production or lack thereof. It's got nothing to with aesthetics or the way...

The Great Acting Blog: “Keeping Your Independence”

26.09.2012 , The Great Acting Blog , 3 Comments

Gielgud as Hamlet "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Ot take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them...

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