I should warn you that I cannot guarantee its verbatimness, but it's
pretty good
I didn't actually write it down because I knew I would remember (!) it &
also there may have been more words where the dash is
he does a lot of staring into space, verbally hesitant, before going on
from a new (inferred) syntactical subject
Interviewed at qmul 27 April 2009 - it was videod
interviewed by Sue Thing - head of Film Studies so you can find her surname
to obviate citing scurrilous me
he emphasised that his method is "sophisticated" and "not just grabbing
people and asking them to be natural"
& "training and experience are important" which is why he likes trained
and experienced actors
he doesnt think his method is harder work than more conventional scripting
- which he doesnot deprecate - but all work is done in rehearsal not
before as per usual
to see a film as an enacted (my word) script is like seeing a building as
an enacted architect's plan but of course there isa relationship
knowing what a film will look like before it is made is as "boring as
knowing what a painting looks like before it is painted"
"the danger is part of what makes it work if it works" [the danger of his
method]
he rarely uses what he called ad lib filming though he does
so he doesnt plan and he does plan
here endeth my few notes - I was also writing possible bits of a new
performance piece
there was much more but that's what caught / courted my fancy
L
On Tue, April 28, 2009 15:08, Tina Bass wrote:
> "even if I knew what it was and even if I knew how to tell you, I
> wouldn't - I like to see my work finished before I speak of it"
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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