No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems.
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
Teaching is performance art.
The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.
Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.
When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.
Tomorrow never really comes, so todays performance is what really counts.
The script and the performances and the style all clicked.
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.
You just have to take control of your own performance.
Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances.
[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".
Having done Spaced, I can't even remember it being that difficult on Spaced, but we know what the end's going to be like. We know why we're putting in this amount of work, or why a shot might be particularly tricky, because we know that what we do is create a whole package. It's the writing, the performances, and the style of camerawork, that's what we're working toward, and we're prepared for that.
I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance
Good acting is consistency of performance.
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.