Danny

“If you can accept that you are all things—and you must if you are to call yourself an actor—then you must bring to the role those parts of yourself that are congruent with what is written, so that you work from yourself at all times, not from some imagined person whose skin you struggle to squeeze into. Don’t force the character on yourself; find the character in yourself.”
― Tony Barr, Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition

“always choose to care about what is happening as much as you logically can within the context of the material.”
― Tony Barr, Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition

“In a well-edited film, the cutting is motivated by stimuli.”
― Tony Barr, Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition

“Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting—intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, to make one’s self heard and seen. Talent alone is not enough. Character and ethics, a point of view about the world in which you live and an education, can and must be acquired and developed.”
― Uta Hagen, Respect for Acting