Day Quote by Richard E. Grant

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these…

— Chris Zylka

Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor; you don't…

— Dule Hill

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

— Edwidge Danticat

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect…

— Lorraine Toussaint

You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple of good…

— Barry Bostwick

At drama school I learned the Stanislavski technique, which uses sentimental memories and bits of your past to put real emotion into the scene.

— Daniel Mays

Usually, I write my scripts first, then think of the actors, or I have a reference of someone.

— Karthik Subbaraj

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where…

— Jean Stapleton

The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.

— Holly Hunter

When I'm improvising, I'm out of my head. I've done a lot of projects recently where there hasn't been a script. It's all been…

— Dave Franco

I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am sitting with…

— Larry Charles

You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you get precious…

— Joel Schumacher