James Lipton quotes and sayings
We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
James Lipton quotes
- 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.
- What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.
- I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
- Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.
- I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.
- And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.
- Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.
- I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.
- 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.
- It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.