“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.” FeelsStatesActionActorsCausesInterestingActingConsciousnessWatchesMovementConsciousLandscapeTensionDullInternalsResolveEmblems Book:Dhalgren Source: Dhalgren
“Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.” SelfHardFeelingsLightActorsCan DoNaturalConsciousnessFiguresMarkPhysicsEtcAfternoonSelf ConsciousnessCharacterization Author:Tom Hanks
“The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?” StillsActorsChallengesConsciousnessMovieBeaten Author:Johnny Depp
“I think there's a real problem if you're making a film - some people have done whether it be about Jackson Pollock or about Picasso - it's difficult for actors, because they have to impersonate a person whose image is very strong in our memories or in our consciousness. It's something that's very tricky, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsRealDoneProblemFilmActorsStrongDifficultMemoriesConsciousnessVery StrongTrickyOur MemoriesReal ProblemsImpersonatePollock Author:Peter Webber
“You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.” KnowsBelieveHumansPlayCharacterBodyActorsHuman BeingsConsciousnessTruth IsInstrumentsWheelsCollectivesLife ExperienceViolin Author:John C. Reilly
“A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.” ArtActorsForceConsciousnessStrangeRhythmClockStreamsMovieWorks Of ArtMetaphysicalInhumanAlgorithmsStream Of Consciousness Author:Jerry Saltz