“As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.” ProcessHoursPerformances Author:Keith Olbermann
“Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.” ProcessReligiousPerformancesShoesRitualBalletPreparingWrappingNew Shoes Author:Natalie Portman
“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause you much stress and discouragement. Lighten up on yourself. Ups and downs can be expected. The performance of most serious runners fluctuates by the week. You win some, you lose some; some days you're hot, some days you're not. Don't fight with yourself when failure, the teacher, pays an unexpected visit. Open up to learning from it.” ThinkingRunningRememberFightingWinningCausesProcessLosesPaySuccessfulTeacherWeekSeriousPerformancesStressHotExpectedUnexpectedIrrationalRunnersUps & DownsDiscouragementRoller CoasterCoasters Author:Jerry Lynch
“Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.” ThinkingWantMadeIdeasUseFilmActorsProcessRoomsPossibilityMaterialsPerformancesNot SureEditingEditsRaw Materials Author:Ralph Fiennes
“Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.” ThinkingI CanDoneFacesActorsProcessLinesGonePerformancesBe YouEditingHomeworkBest Place Author:Ralph Fiennes
“I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.” WayActorsProcessEnjoyPerformancesCastsBack And Forth Author:Frank Welker
“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.” KnowsGivingKindGuyReadingLanguageProcessTermLinesVisionWonderfulDirectorsPerformancesPressureScriptsIntenseCommandCinemaVisualsComprehensiveLightingUnder PressureCameraman Author:Edward Norton
“The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.” ShouldProcessEducationFailingDependsPerformancesExcellenceFinancialEducationalAidsIncentivesFinancial Aid Author:John H. Sununu
“I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances is you don't have to wait around. Literally, we're still waiting to see what the reaction is to the film, so it's a slower process. But it is enjoyable.” WantFilmWaitingProcessPerformancesSticksReactionsCategoriesEnjoyableLove MakingLive Performance Author:Jim Carrey
“The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.” KnowsHas BeensWholeLawProcessPerformancesFoundationAssumptionConsistentLaws Of NatureLapsesInference Author:William Morris Davis
“Mental Management is the process of maximising the probability of having a consistent mental performance, under pressure, on demand” ProcessDemandPerformancesPressureManagementConsistentProbabilityUnder Pressure Author:Lanny Bassham
“Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering.” IfsProcessEnemyBreakClearIdealsPerformancesCommittedSpeedFlyingHeightRepeatsAviationRoughCombatAssaultPursuedAircraftBreak Off Author:Erich Hartmann
“My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.” IfsGivingFeelingsNextActorsProcessQualityInformationSceneDirectorsPerformancesStrongestInstruction Author:James Preston Rogers
“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'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.” WayGivingProcessPerformancesGive MeEditingRelaxed Author:Ralph Fiennes
“I feel there's so much still to learn about acting. But there is some magic in the capturing of performance and in the process of editing a performance. The psychology of human beings and what's coming through the face... that fascinates me.” FeelsHumansStillsFacesProcessHuman BeingsActingPsychologyMagicPerformancesEditing Author:Ralph Fiennes
“Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.” ProcessPracticeHigherAchievementPerformancesExtraordinaryAthleteMindsetFocusedRelaxed Book:Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life Source: Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life
“Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.” MenHumansLongPoliticalLyingValuesProcessDecisionResultsJudgmentComputerCapacityProgramMachinesPerformancesPressureStrategyIncrediblesSpeedContraryChessCommitRangeSweatAestheticRecallsSuperficialBlundersStaplesTacticalWithstanding Author:Ira Carmen
“I'm not very comfortable with watching my performances. I don't particularly find a great joy in it. Everything is the process of making it, of getting it, getting the job, saying yes to the job. Those are the joys. Making it is the greatest joy. And then, you have to show the bloody thing. You have to show and tell, be judged. But I don't listen. I don't pay much attention. I hear the rumblings of greatness or the arrows of discontent and harsh words. Then you go, "Oh God. Why?"” ShowsJobsJoyProcessPayAttentionGreatnessComfortablePerformancesJudgedBloodyHarshArrowsDiscontentGreat JoySaying YesHarsh Words Author:Pierce Brosnan
“When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.” FirstsHomeEyeProcessDirectorsFirst TimePerformancesNervousAttachmentLots Of MoneyBreakdownFinanciersNervous BreakdownGreat PerformanceTrusting You Author:John Krokidas
“And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.” KnowsWritingTryingKindDifferentProcessUnderstandingSoundComedyFocusTaughtCollegeJokesAspectPerformancesCraftsWriting ComedyImprov Comedy Author:Nicholas Stoller
“What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.” ThinkingTryingFormCertainValuesProcessGenerationsDesignPerformancesEngineeringCriteriaIncorporatingDesign Process Author:Neri Oxman
“When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.” LooksBigsProcessWrittenHugePerformancesOriginalsAssumptionEditingIntuitive Author:Sue Tompkins
“I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.” IdeasPlayProcessEmotionParticularPerformancesDetailsHidingThoughts And EmotionsHiding Things Author:Sue Tompkins
“I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.” LittlesHardRememberWaitingProcessLosesRecordsMinutesPrayingComputerPerformancesGuitarWheelsCrashSpinningRemember YouRemembers You Author:Beck
“There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we talk about the movie, it's kind of a mix between melodrama and cinéma vérité. This involves ideas about playing the role of yourself and the movie of your life and all these other things.” KindArtIdeasRealProcessRolesPerformancesTensionMelodramaPerformance Art Author:Robert Greene
“I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.” ThinkingMindI CanDifferentCharacterBigsProcessDifferencesDirectorsConversationPerformancesAhead Of Time Author:Nia Long
“Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and having discipline, but not prescribing what the performance was supposed to be. Neither of them are really directing their actors into a performance.” ActorsProcessFocusDisciplineCreatingUniquePerformancesMoodSupposed To BeNaturalistIntentionalityPrescribing Author:Sam Pressman
“It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.” KnowsHappensProcessCompanyRecordsBattlePerformancesDisappearProducersDigitalEngineersVolumeNobody KnowsDynamicsRecord Companies Author:Geddy Lee
“What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.” IfsChildrenEnoughKidsStrongProcessChangeAttitudeLaughingPerformancesAngerExcellenceGutsStrong Enough Author:Richard M. Nixon