"I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies."

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Source : "Sculpting Away". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2012.

Willem Dafoe

#Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes #Singing Quotes

“When our consciousness is quiet, the waves of thought cease and we see clearly enough to relate back to our spirit. we connect with who we really are.”
“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”
“The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.”
“Perhaps freedom from ideas of freedom - is the sweetest freedom of all.”
“In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.”

Source : "Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity". Interview with Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. April 21, 2007.
“The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in the strings, the sound was more mellow and softer; it also allowed me to cover a larger span of the fingerboard. I used this for quite a few years, but eventually I went back to the standard fingerboard.”
“What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 8, 2011
“I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.”

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