Intensity of Expression Quotes

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.

When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.