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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place so that the actor can create. And in order to do that you have to communicate communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

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William Friedkin
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Category: Communication

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. We live in an age of mediocrity.
  • 2. The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
  • 3. I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
  • 2. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
  • 3. When you're offered things it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

3 Anger

  • 1. My dear brothers take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to become angry for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
  • 2. It's a very difficult thing for people to accept seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
  • 3. Anger tears me up inside… My own… or anyone else's.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.
  • 2. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 3. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

5 Architecture

  • 1. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
  • 2. Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
  • 3. The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
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