The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
Interpretation
Great acting transcends individual contributions, immersing the audience in the story.
This quote emphasizes the ideal of acting where the performer successfully embodies their character to such an extent that the audience becomes fully absorbed in the narrative, forgetting the behind-the-scenes elements such as the writer, director, and even the actor themselves. It highlights the importance of authenticity and immersion in performance art.
In practice
During a theater workshop, a director could use this quote to inspire actors to focus on their character's essence.
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
I have to say, I feel a weird sort of calling in filmmaking that I didn't feel with other things. I feel like there are things in life you want to do, and then things you are called to do, and hopefully you can allow yourself to want to do whatever you're called to do.
Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing.
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
My hope is that witnessing the beautiful harmony created by merging different musical melodies will help people realize the beauty in our own differences.
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