The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job most of the time is simply to do no harm.
When something does go wrong, however, your awareness that something is awry--and your clinical intervention to correct it--can determine whether the child will thrive or suffer, live or die.
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I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.
Craig FergusonTags: ambition desperation directing never-again
I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.
Craig FergusonTags: love work effort pride directing
That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.
Vincent H. O'NeilTags: writing theater mystery acting actors writing-tips playwright directing directors playwrights playwrighting
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
Vincent H. O'NeilTags: writing murder theater mystery acting writing-tips playwright directing playwriting playwrights books-for-writers
The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found a new understanding in their advice: Writing is rewriting. The rough draft is just that. You can’t polish what you haven’t written.
Things that made for a normal life—like a daily routine that followed the sun—took a back seat to times like these, and he exulted in that change because it served as proof that his writing was indeed the most important thing in his life. It wasn’t a conscious choice on his part, like deciding to repaint the bathroom or go buy the groceries, but an overarching reallocation of his existence that was as undeniable as breathing. Day turned into night, breakfast turned into dinner, and the laptop or the writing tablet beckoned even when he was asleep.
He would often awake with a new idea—as if he’d merely been on a break and not unconscious—and he would see the empty seat before the desk not as his station in some pointless assembly line, but as the pilot’s seat in a ship that could go anywhere.
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Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
Vincent H. O'NeilTags: love writing murder sex theater mystery acting seduction girlfriend directing playwriting
You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
Anne BogartTags: directing
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
Stephen KingTags: acting plays teens musicals directing
You Never Know A True Friend Until You get Into A Serious Misunderstanding With Him Or Her
Michael A. JohnsonTags: inspirational dramatic directing
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