Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
From James Lipton
Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.
I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.
Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.
I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.
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