For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Funnily enough, I never thought of myself as being short. Being an actor has made me much more conscious of it than I would have been otherwise.
Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.
I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
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