American - Educator | September 19, 1926 -
I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.
James Lipton
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I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
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I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
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I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
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I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.
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If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.
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It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
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Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
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The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.
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They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
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They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
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