There's so much crap talked about acting.
From Ben Kingsley
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
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