Book: Public loneliness

Americans used to believe that only their films, but they star and "Oscar" is the only important and interesting that is happening in the world of cinema. The rest of them - a sort of cockroach race.

In American cinema there are prostitutes and drug addicts, and bad people, and corruption, and criminals. But there is something that it is impossible to cross: respect your country, respect for its people, respect for the law. And there is always a police officer sooner or later, who risked his life to save. This does not mean that always the case. But the Americans, who prove the American authorities that proves that it protects its citizens in any territory at any point of the globe, it gives people hope that they knowingly live.

All types of actors are born when writing the script. If you don't know who will be playing, is a disaster. So, you have no idea what kind of a character, and begin to try different actors. I once was: the Director was planning for the same role Vitsin, I Strizhenova. It turns out the man just doesn't understand what he wants.

The relationship between the actors, between the Director and the actor somehow have the character of the sensual, and that sensuality is not in inflating the nostrils, not in the grasping hands, not in undoing a bra or climbing pants, and the energy, which affects the viewer, because the end result is that, born here, passed there.

... a constant feeling of craft at your finger tips! If the pianist does not play for two weeks, a month, that's all. Pianist Rudolf Kehrer in prison and played on the Board, and when I came out, then a few days later gave a concert.

I think the world does not exist professions difficult or easy. This measure determines only the human conscience. Just as she determines the price of success. Success is variable, and should not try to make it permanent, to strive on a wave of good luck to score maximum points. We must move on.
Makes a man a man the consciousness that he has achieved something through a long and painful inner work, through huge work. Perhaps this is the explanation of why I, being expelled from drama school for unauthorized participation in the shooting, tried to beg forgiveness, and went to enroll in VGIK Mikhail Ilyich Romm...

Remember that it is very important for an actor is to dive right in. Everyday problems, communication with relatives and friends can nullify all that has been achieved on the eve of filming.

... if the actor is external fault, he should make it a favourite for the viewer.

... I still think that most great artists, regardless of what country they were born and what language they speak, passed the Russian theatrical school, because our acting is perhaps the strongest in the world, I am convinced, working in the West...

Absolute axiom: quality of the actor is not even how he plays, how he plays along.
Only one actor who knows how to spend, when back is to the camera when it is not important when he can play like as you like, but from the inside it helps your partner is a top class professional and a huge-hearted man.

Anyway, the actor is forced to demonstrate that it is able to be afloat. And he had to hide his helplessness in the profession for a huge number of other adaptations: for the operator, the music of the same artist. So I think that one of the most punishable things is an attempt to assert themselves at the expense of the artist... the Artist's need to endlessly love and not just telling him nice words, though it is also very important. Need to care about the life of each artist in the expedition. In this love there are no trifles...

The strength of the actor is only one: all his skill, all his temperament, imagination, powers of observation to use in the role to enrich its contents. Even then the episode becomes art...

If students perceive what they're talking about each artist, they have a real professional mindedness.
They should not stupidly follow the teacher.

If you're sincere, if you believe in what you're doing, if responsible for your words, for your movie and ready to defend them on any strict critical spectator court, it is a shame you will not even for their mistakes, for this is human error, citizen, artist, and sincerely believed in what he was doing.