Actors Quote by Jeff Britting

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had…

— Arthur Miller

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

— Marcia Gay Harden

There was a technique to making a musical. It took a long time for the studios to learn it, and it was very complicated.

— Cyd Charisse

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as…

— Michael Giles

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

— Wayne Shorter

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted…

— Norman Jewison

Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it…

— Michael Cristofer

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody…

— Sam Shepard

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want -…

— Michael Nyman

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence…

— Frederick Wiseman

Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm;…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond…

— Sam Shepard