"My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Chris Zylka

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mentor Quotes

“What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.”
“Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.”
“My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.”
“No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable”
“The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.”
“Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature -- screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon -- the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.”

Source : "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.
“I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.”
“Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.”

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