An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Man is a universe within himself.
The hand has the richest articulation of space.
Roles make the actor.
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
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