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There's A Lot Of Different Ways Of Going About Teaching Acting And Ultimately You Have To Just Kind Of Create Your Own. You Have To Be The Author Of Your Own Acting School In A Way. I Mean You Can Take From This And This And You Can Watch People And You Can Watch Performances On The Stage. You Can Watch Movies. But Ultimately You Have To Figure It Out For Yourself.

All Of Modern Acting Comes From Stanislavski, Who Was The Russian Partner To Chekhov. When Chekhov Was Writing His Plays, Stanislavski Was Running His Theater. And Stanislavski Really Was The First Inventor Of Modern Acting And Then Everything That Came Out Of The Method And Stella Adler And The Great Teachers Really Came Out Of Him.

Sometimes People Don't Rehearse At All, But You Might Have Had A Chance To Rehearse For A Few Days, Or Even More Than That. Then In The Moment When The Camera's Running Is The Only Time It Matters. So Whatever You've Discussed Or Thought About Or Discussed With The Director, The Other Actors, Hopefully There's A Part Of The Experience That You've Left Open So That Only In That Moment The Camera Catches It. That's Of Course The Hardest Thing To Do Because Everything Is Planned And You Have Thought About It In Advance.

This Is A Good Thing To Say To Film Students. If There's A Story Point That You Don't Feel Right About, That There's A Question You Have - "does It Really Make Sense?" Or, "is That Plausible? Is It Implausible? Is It Set Up?" Or Whatever. Go At It. Don't Let It Go. If There's A Question In Your Mind, You're Probably Right. You Probably Do Need To Work On It And Think About It More.

Once I Get On Something, Once I Have Something That I'm Working On, Then I Become Very Obsessive. In A Good Way. I Mean,... Is There A Positive Way To Say Obsessive? It's A Good Thing And If You're Out There And You're Working On Something Right Now And You're Crazed And You're Up In The Middle Of The Night, Or You Can't Stop Thinking About It, Or You Have To Keep Reading Other Things About The Subject That You're Working On Or Whatever. That's Good And I Think That's Necessary Creatively.