Friday Movie Time! - Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me
Mark Ruffalo doing a master class in how to have a great movie conversation with a kid. No condescension, no talking down. Just two people.
Creative ego is a tyrant
In an awesome profile of Michael Keaton and the upcoming Birdman , Director Alejandro Iñárritu gives this little nugget about his creative process.
“When I’m working, my Birdman, my ego, becomes really big,” Mr. Iñárritu said. “It can elevate me, and, 30 minutes later, it destroys me. It’s a tyrant.” He went on to explain, “This is my creative process. I go two steps forward and then three back, and then I love it.”
Creating something: thrilling. Act of creation: can suck.
Don't grovel before the audience
In a Guernica mag interview writer Katie Kitamura discusses resisting the impulse to be liked.
Guernica: You’ve written before about the temptation, when you’re writing, to be liked.
Katie Kitamura: Yeah. It’s terrible. The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try to write on the premise that no one is going to read my work. Because there’s this terrible impulse to grovel before the reader, to make them like you, to write with the reader in mind in that way. It’s a terrible, damaging impulse. I feel it in myself. It prevents you doing work that is ugly or upsetting or difficult. The temptation is to not be true to what you want to write and to be considerate or amusing instead. I’m always trying to fight against the impulse to make my readers like me.
Actors, this is for you too.
Summer is ending, how about a little Jaws to close it out.
Summer does not officially end without watching Robert Shaw talk about the Indianapolis in Jaws. Get freaked out/mesmerized by him.
Mark Rylance
From documentary Muse of Fire British actor and director Mark Rylance talks about the frustration of table reads. How important it is to get up and act, and practice. Not sit around and talk.
"We've only got four weeks, five weeks. What the hell are we doing, sitting around, planning things. We need to practice! We need to practice. Because in five weeks...they're in the audience with every reason not to believe us... We need EVERY skill we have to bring them into the play and let them experience it live. And feel something."
http://vimeo.com/timebombpictures/review/84340431/bc2aab771b
