You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
BEAU WILLIMONAnd they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.
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At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk – games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance I head over to my friend Kyri’s house to play his PS3.
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Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters.
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And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.
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I don’t think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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If you work hard and play by the rules, you’ll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.
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Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life.
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In Washington, if you’re a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you’d think that if you were the leader of the free world you’d be making major bank, and you don’t.
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My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole – I was an advance man.
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In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they’re good notes, and they see things that you wouldn’t have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
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When you’re creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.
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In politics, it’s very theatrical. There’s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives – at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we’re all politicians.
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A lot more locations and you’re able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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