I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
Jack NicholsonRead
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
Interpretation
Jack Nicholson views his portrayal of the Joker as a significant artistic achievement.
In this quote, Jack Nicholson expresses his pride in his role as the Joker, emphasizing that he sees it as not just a performance, but an important piece of pop art. This suggests that he values the creative and cultural impact of his work, highlighting the intersection of film and art in popular culture.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a discussion about the role of actors in creating art.
I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.
I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings β not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
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