In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.
I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them.
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.
I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.
Courage is to act on your beliefs or opinions especially in spite of criticism. Not to act on someones idea of what your courage should be....
I see in Jesus not only the supreme act of humility in God, but the supreme act of humanity in God.
With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.
Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.
This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.
