Actors on Acting – The Acting Corps Blog

Woody Allen was once a brilliant writer and a great director. But he has grown tired of himself – he tries to change things up, maybe set this movie in London, or that one in Barcelona, but he has grown tired of himself. It is a problem every artist experiences especially whenever the artist has [...]

Sometimes we just need to win at something in order to feel a part of the world again. Yet winning is as much of a fraud as losing – the world treats both impostors with the same measure of amusement.

Ben Hecht once dictated a screenplay to two secretaries over two days. Ben Hecht was so well respected that the movie was then shot exactly as he wrote/dictated it. The movie turned out to be a huge flop. Is there a lesson here? Other than that in Hollywood there are no rules, not really.

Whenever we actors approach playing a love relationship our first concern is “why do I love this person”, or the more desperate “how can I feel love for this other actor”. Billy Wilder wisely pointed out that a good love story depends more than anything on “what keeps them apart.”

Whenever we escape our creative reality we label this evasion as a departure from self. It then makes perfect sense to describe our creative rebirth with humility and caution, as it is only a return to self.