So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
Interpretation
Acting requires an understanding of the character, often enhanced by technical elements like lighting.
In this quote, Ralph Fiennes emphasizes the importance of both the technical aspects of filmmaking, such as lighting, and the emotional connection an actor must develop with their characters. He suggests that by gaining intimacy and understanding of a character, an actor can cultivate a genuine love for that character, even for traditionally villainous roles such as Voldemort.
In practice
This quote could be shared in a drama class to emphasize character development.
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
What is really beautiful must always be true.
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.
I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.
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