Private Moment Quotes

“Rather, the private moment becomes a starting point for the other exercises that the actor has already practiced. The actor creates the private moment and maintains it as he adds other elements unrelated to it: the overall sensation, a personal object, daily activities, a monologue, a song, and so on. I have the actor do this, however, only after he is capable of creating the private moment with sufficient conviction and commitment. This exercise is one that the actor does until he has accomplished it. The exercise itself usually lasts about an hour, which means that the actor is capable of sustaining it for what would be the length of a long act on the stage or the span of time typically demanded on a movie set.”
― Lee Strasberg, A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method