If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.
That raw connection between the two performers is something you can't fully plan. You just go with it and get lost in that moment and feed off of each other.
We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre was interactive.
With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set.
I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.
I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
People that plan interviews are really boring. I just say what I want when it comes into my head.
When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.
There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away.
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
