“When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.” TwoMomentsShowsAudienceFrontsGoes OnCamerasFlyingSeatsPantsRehearsalTwo DaysRewriting Author:Michael Richards
“I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.” IfsFirstsTwoActorsSceneOkayTreatsCamerasRehearsal Author:Alfred Molina
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.” KnowsWantFirstsWholeUsedActorsAudienceComedyImagineWeekFirst TimeExcitingCamerasShockRehearsalChaoticOld DaysSitcomStunningMinstrels Author:William Shatner
“In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.” KindOrderPerformancesTheaterCamerasHopefullyRehearsalFiguring It Author:Christopher Walken
“In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.” IfsRunningCamerasAccidentsRepeatsRehearsal Author:Christopher Walken
“I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.” IfsTryingLooksLongDoeActorsEnjoyLinesSimplePicksCamerasCoffeeRollingRehearsal Author:Michael Haneke
“I think Julianne Moore is very, very good. I've worked with her. We did Surviving Picasso. I remember one scene we did together. She had to have a nervous, a mental, breakdown in this one scene. I didn't have many lines. I just had to make sure I knew I came in on cue all right. And I was just watching her walking though the rehearsal. I thought I know what she's doing, "This is going to be terrific." So they said, "Are you ready" and she said, "Yeah," "Ok, roll the camera." And all in one take.” ThinkingKnowsSaidTogetherRememberLinesReadyWalkingSceneCamerasYeahVery GoodNervousThey SaidTerrificSurvivingRehearsalBreakdownMental Breakdown Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, and to know that if you were clever and didn't do too many rehearsals, that it just came that way.” IfsKnowsWayPersonsMorningCrySixCamerasActressesCleverCrewRehearsal Author:Jane Birkin
“People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.” PeopleCamerasLuckRehearsalExpertise Author:William Hurt
“I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.” ThinkingShouldTryingFirstsReadyFirst TimeCamerasRehearsal Author:Oliver Stone