Author of quotes: Sergei Yursky

I Love Al Pacino. He plays the Cubans, the Jews can reincarnate. When he is talking to camera - he's using a camera talking with your partner, with the world, with life, with death. This is the school of Stanislavsky. Al Pacino carries the same school, which has gone from us, is a psychological actor in the understanding of Michael Chekhov. Our psychological theatre ridiculed and booed by us. In the modern theater musical rhythms replaced the ones that must be created by the actors and staging. Their presence, but their mysterious invisibility is and forced people to stand up nights for tickets to Chekhov. Because of the play-you know - it's not what was new or say something new. But there was something shaking rhythms, which gives, may be, more subtle and more penetrating in human emotions and thoughts than music. Directors and actors just to shoot the works. Have Kuryokhin with his pop mechanics was the hope, without meaning, without hard-won clear words, we can and must live that in the confusion, the fault will sprout something. And grows usually something monstrous.

Never watch on television or the ceremony "Oscar" or any other - the wife is watching. But here was shown the "Golden globe". Like horrible the situation is - I would not be able to sit there, applaud. But suddenly there's an actor I love very much, Anthony Hopkins, and I'm stuck. About it something tell are images from the movies. Turns out the Hopkins speech. And I think he and Hopkins this slime - Yes, slime, this party - ate. And wipes away your personality - and then what, by the way, on their works of art reflected. Not directly, but reflected. And I don't want to watch movies with him - his arrival there, Hopkins showed some awful mediocrity.

I will never forget the Japanese Keck. I put in Tokyo, a play by Ibsen. I imagine a young actress Keck. There was just a small role of a girl who comes into the room to Borkman (the play "Yun Gabriel borkman". - Esquire), playing the piano and no longer appears. I asked: "You play the piano?" "No, don't play". Well, nothing, say, Grieg will be on the radio sound, and you simply hear, or behind the scenes put musician, what's worse, of course. She asks: "And maybe I'm playing?" What you say, it's complicated. And leave. Held for two months, we have a cocktail, eat some meat, my name is: "We want the Cake you played". She sits down - fingers like matchsticks, and powerfully plays "Norwegian dance" Grieg, difficult, virtuosic thing. How? What? "Are you in school?" "Yes, the teacher took". - "Wait, you were on tour in America." "Was, Yes." She's in America agreed and all the free time did not go to America, and learned. I was ashamed, I told you that it's a small role that it is generally no one will appreciate. Is polite and smiling - she just wanted to do everything the best way.

My greatest achievement - its a big apartment. I'm forty years lived in a communal apartment.

None of the Russian actors have not made a career in Hollywood. It is not professionalism at all. We absolutely foreign to them, and they us. There are Protestants, Catholics, there are different variations of them, there are poles, Slavs, Greeks-Orthodox - and all Europe. And Russia - it's separate. And above all, for the Europe, America she's boring. This boredom can, of course, be something that causes interest, but this interest is the same plan as against, for example, now they hated Iran. African is closer to Hollywood than we are. The fact that the African knows about the world he knows from English-speaking or French-speaking movies and books. We write some weird letters, we have all your big separate world. Then African actor to a certain point of international recognition - if it happens - he'll know his place; all the foreigners in Hollywood - people who gave themselves to grind. And we not want to know, because esteemed themselves equal, and have every reason to.

Freedom is determined by the number of people you can send.

The main thing - self discipline: the discipline of washing dishes, emptying the rubbish, work, thoughts.

To get used to - it is too psychiatric a word. Michael Chekhov said that to get you mad...

Two professions seemed exciting - investigator and spy. Spy - a person who pretends to be, but pretends to be perfect. The investigator is the one who sees a spy through and distinguish between genuine and simulated.