John Tiffany Quotes

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff and discovering moments. It's just fantastic, where you can really go in there and be creative and everything.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.