“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.” PeopleThinkingArtMadeStillsFactsDifficultElementsPerformancesMade ItTheatricalPerformance Art Author:Lady Gaga
“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.” KnowsImportantMatterFactsSoundChanceMy OwnForeverWonderfulElementsBuiltPerformancesImportant ThingsNuanceDrawbacksLive Performance Author:Aaron Copland
“To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.” NeedsYearsDifferentPlayFilmFallActorsElementsCommitmentPerformancesCombinationMemorableDifferent Things Author:Edward Zwick
“Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.” FirstsLittlesArtMadePlayTogetherElementsPerformancesInstrumentsMusicalVisualsCollaborationComponentsLodges Author:Michael Dumontier
“It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.” IfsFeelsTryingKindActorsProcessDirectorsElementsPerformancesStartingSoldierEmployeeComfortingCollaborators Author:Jason Bateman
“I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you. You start out with some notion of it, but it's very different from a script. A script you write, you shoot against, and you know what the story is going to be. There's always the element of surprise, but the surprise comes from performance, from something that's improvised, it comes from someone who sees it inside an already determined framework. In documentary, it's never determined. It's never the same, and affords enormous possibility.” ThinkingKnowsWritingDifferentStoriesMysteryPossibilityElementsPerformancesSurpriseNotionScriptsDeterminedEnormousDocumentariesFrameworkElement Of Surprise Author:Gail Levin
“Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.” IfsThinkingNeedsWritingFirstsWellsLooksKindImportantShowsTogetherCoursesPerfectStyleTvsElementsPerformancesWhat IfPerformersTv ShowsSlickPerfect Marriage Author:Edgar Wright
“...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.” KnowsTryingWellsSeemsGamesFeltCausesElementsPerformancesPreparedMusicalLiftsGloriousDecentFestivalsTheatricalClimaxMusical Performance Author:Hermann Hesse
“You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance.” KnowsTryingJobsFilmActorsCan DoTvsElementsPerformancesScriptsAvailableBest ThingsTake Control Author:Damian Lewis
“My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.” MayPurposeElementsPerformancesEntertaining Author:Vaginal Davis
“I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.” ThinkingWayHomeSongActingWrittenStageListeningElementsConnectionsPerformancesSongwritingCds Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.” ThinkingKindSongChanceSpaceElementsStandardsPerformancesUltimateExcitingVariousVersionsManifestationMultipleImprovisationSacredness Author:Sufjan Stevens
“In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."” GivingTryingWellsLooksRealSometimesFilmActorsEssentialsElementsPerformancesTheaterCollaboration Author:Karen Allen
“I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.” GoalElementsPerformancesContemporaryNoisePuzzled Author:Moby