I started under my master, Etienne Decroux, who taught me a new grammar for mime he called statuary mime. This grammar brings style creations. Without it, no art survives.
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.
I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.
When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When a mime is not perfect, you see nothing.
I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.
If I were bombing with my jokes in English, I would go back to France. Maybe do that mime thing.
I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.
