QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN REY
All pleasure is tension and release.
There are two types of people in the world: those who divide things into two and those who don’t.
A play (movie) begins when a world in an uneasy state of equilibrium is broken into by an event.
Our personal narratives are constructed of narratives. Our consciousness is a collection of narratives.
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths.(Poetic Faith)
“the willing suspension of disbelief” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
With a documentary, the willing suspension of disbelief is that we are not suspending our disbelief.
Theatre is once. Film is ”forever”.
Theatre is space, film is shadows.
All narratives exist in three times: the time they are about; the time they are authored; the present time of the audience watching NOW.
The clown always comes back up.
Acting is telling the truth with a straight face.
Acting is reacting. -- Sandy Meisner
Killing your father and sleeping with your mother is a tough job -- but someone has to do it.
The fundamental relationship on stage is actor-audience. In film, it is actor-camera.
There is a difference between basketball and baseball, between action and excitement.
Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in” – Arlo Guthrie
“For every laugh, there should be a tear'” — Walt Disney“
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—Success in Circuit lies.” — Emily Dickinson
