Of course, silence in the theater, when you know that that silence is being sustained before your eyes by a group of actors on stage can be equally thrilling. I think we undervalue silence as a very powerful currency. I think we're frightened of it right now. We fill it at the least provocation. |
Once I start painting, once I start acting and working, it's not a holiday. It's not a respite, but it is, in a sense, a balance, but it's of equal weight. It's a balance; it does balance out. |
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer. |
People have been, as I said earlier, crushed and distorted and forced into all kinds of strange postures as human beings because of circumstance. I don't know what monsters and demons would be in me if I felt that violence was the only way out of a very dark corner. |
Quite often when I'm cast in a movie, I'm asked to bring whatever intelligence is there to the surface. |
Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting. |
Sometimes, you know, one is distracted by a bad print or a bad sound quality. |
Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries. |
That was never a concern for me, |
The astonishing silences in a Tarkovsky film... can sweep you into screen and... you don't want to end. |
The Dostoevsky in Russia is very alive. |
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. |
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed. |
The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience. |
The special effect are apparently quite complicated and quite expensive, which meant further delays, but the movie is ready now, |