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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. I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks really – it's all about maturity.
  • 2. Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
  • 3. It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs you also remember the age kindly.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I love MySpace it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks but I'm not a poster girl for them.
  • 2. I think for business reasons fiscal reasons I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.
  • 3. Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
  • 2. Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
  • 3. I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration anger shame helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration that sense of unfairness and multiply it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
  • 2. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 3. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
  • 2. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 3. I don't find Hollywood interesting so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
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