I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.
Interpretation
Collaboration and connection among performers enhances the collective experience on stage.
This quote by Michael Arden emphasizes the importance of unity and equality among performers in a theatrical setting. By insisting on connecting with everyone involved, he highlights the idea that each person's contribution is vital to the success of the performance, fostering a sense of teamwork and shared responsibility that enhances the artistic expression and experience for both the performers and the audience.
In practice
In a team meeting to discuss a new project, I might say, 'As Michael Arden said, we are all in it together, and everyone's an equal part.'
If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
One of the obsessions that the Soviet Union and the Eastern European communist parties had was always controlling the message - all information that everybody gets has to be carefully controlled and monitored. Art was no exception.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.
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