The Great Acting Blog: “6 Directors To Change Your Thinking”

The Great Acting Blog: “6 Directors To Change Your Thinking”

In the spirit of creating your own mentor, the following are comments and insights by notable directors have been put together to inspire and open the mind, as it is a curse to become locked into the same routine way of thinking, leading to the same routine results. Sometimes we need to just take a slightly different view of things…

“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” Akira Kurosawa

“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.” Frederico Fellini

“Study the old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There’s always so much more to learn.” Martin Scorsese

“As an artist we must try many things, but above all we must dare to fail.” John Cassavetes

“Everyone has some kind of compass inside them. A clock that is closely connected with their instinct – not so much with their head. This clock tells every single person what is allowed and what is not allowed. When we should stop and when we can go on. We have to listen to it unconditionally. If you betray it, you betray yourself.” Krzysztof Kieslowski

“I think it’s better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be under-ambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!”  Francis Ford Coppola

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