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“For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.”

Way Real Helping Actors Found Known Style Illusion Advantage Sells Definite Disbelief Suspension Suspension Of Disbelief

Author:Oren Peli

“I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.”

Said Actors Security Benefits Illusion

Author:Hal Sparks

“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.”

Needs Looks Kind Film Certain Actors Stars Quality Figures Particular Ordinary Illusion Claims Film Stars

Author:Stephen Fry

“There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set quite appropriately and said, "I'm sorry, Jim. When you're directing, you don't need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do." And, you know, and I WOULD be there behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn't even aware of.”

Knows Way Needs Trying Said Would Be Actors Behinds Directors Illusion Sorry I'm Sorry Signals

Author:James L. Brooks

“The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.”

Actors Illusion Performances Rationality Emphasis Dilemma Theatrical Undermining Brecht

Book:From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism

Source: From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.”

Kind Film Certain Actors Illusion

Author:Stephen Fry