Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
ALAN ARKINHollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials — they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think — rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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It keeps it more of a surprise. I don’t feel like it has to be a mystery.
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Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, “It’s better this way.” But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
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