Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
Language does not make one an elite.
I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
"Facilitate my thinking" means thinking about who I am as a human being in relation to the world around me. It's how I position myself, how I navigate through this world. That to me is thinking. It is also exhausting to constantly be making art that in some ways responds to the conditions of the world around you. I gave myself permission to turn all of that off, and to lose myself in work.
On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.
In the end a lie is a lie.
Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.