A Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
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I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.
Let them make their war.
Whence come night and day?
Whence will the eagle become gray?
Whence is it that night is dark?
Whence is it that the linnet is green?
The ebullition of the sea,
How is it not seen?
As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'
I want to attack and to lead my life with vigor, but I'm in the watching stage at the moment. Younger actors feel pressure to bring a pop to every scene; as the roles get bigger, I'm finding you can add layers and do less scene-to-scene.
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.
Actors will, in their mind, want to 'steal the scene,' and the problem is that means the scene didn't work in the first place.
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene.
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.
Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
Scorsese is a fan of improv and is always pushing actors to think up something that would make the scene more fun. He loves any idea that helps the scene be alive.
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