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When you’re working on memorizing your lines

whatshouldtheatrecallme:

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Except my actors knew their lines today!!! Not word perfect, but they came in, said they didn’t know it, then were pretty much off-book. It was amazing.

(Reblogged from whatshouldtheatrecallme)
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Artist” is a word that floats in your head, but there’s a point where you’ve got to come out of the closet and say, “That’s what I intend to be,” and saying that rules out a lot of things you might have done on your life. I suppose for me it meant the difference between “putting on plays” and participating in the world through theatre. When you make a choice like that, you have to make a commitment to treasure the work—the work above all else, the importance of the work, the seriousness of the work, hopefully the value of the work.
Garland Wright, from pg 12 of Michael Bloom’s Thinking Like a Director

Stereotyping People by their Favourite Director

littlemovienerd:

disquieting-muse:


Stereotyping People by their Favorite Director

Wes Anderson: Indie music fans (although none will fess up to it).

Steven Spielberg: People who haven’t seen any movies

Jean Luc-Godard: Francophiles who are bitter

François Truffaut: Francophiles who are joyous

Ingmar Bergman: People who prefer books to movies

Sofia Coppola: Girls who want to make movies

Gus van Sant: LGBT teens

Michel Gondry: DIY types who are too busy making stuff to watch a whole lot of movies

Michael Bay: complete dumbasses

Tim Burton: High school art students with piercings and wild hair

Michael Moore: Politically active pinko liberals

The Coen Brothers: Cynics with a penchant for old movies

Woody Allen: Gentiles who wouldn’t mind being Jewish (and vice versa)

Stanley Kubrick: Kids who just got their first camera

Quentin Tarantino: People who insist on demonstrating their cinephilia by incessantly quoting movies

Richard Linklater: Slackers

Wong Kar-Wai: Hip jet-setters

I am a cynic indie music fan with a penchant for old movies who incessantly quotes them and also wouldn’t mind being Jewish.  Well then, stereotypes can be quite telling, can’t they…

Missing out on some Hitchcock and Polanski though!

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(Reblogged from littlemovienerd)

waltdisneywithblood:

Stroboscopic exposures of Alfred Hitchcock directing ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ (1942).

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