Charles Burnett Quotes
With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.
Charles Burnett
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
Sam Trammell
Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
Garth Davis
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
Carla Bley
Every education minister today has a chance of introducing in his education today some simple technique, some simple natural insights into the total reality of life, which the physical sciences have explored in terms of 'Unified Field', which the ancient Vedic wisdom has located in the Self referral consciousness of everyone.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
Wallace Stevens
I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
Don Ameche
In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
Jane Byrne
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm always going with my visceral reaction when I read a script. I am more drawn to characters who are conflicted, and in developing a character exploration. If it's a baddie, I'm rarely intrigued, and if it's a goody two-shoes - too much of a good guy - I'm not, either.
Alexander Skarsgard
When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
Bel Powley
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
Andrea Arnold
With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.
Charles Burnett
