“Just
because they say ‘Action’, doesn’t mean you have to do anything.”
Marlon Brando
"When
you make a film, you must forget anybody is ever going to see it. Just make
it. Just stay true to it."
John Houston, Director/Actor
“Everything stems from some incredible core inside him. What comes out
is uniquely his own.”
Sydney Lumet, Director on Al Pacino
“…the
willingness to go emotionally naked and the control to do it in character.”
Pauline Kael, Critic on John Travolta in “Blow-Out”
Michael Ventura, an outstanding writer who’s work can be read on the net
(the austinchronicle.com),had the privilege of being part of a group talking
with the great mystic-guide, sooth-sayer and way-shower Carlos Castaneda.
It was near the recent end of his days here, and it happened in of all places
Los Angeles where he lived. A small man, not well, he had been quietly talking,
with humor and a gentleness until asked how was it possible to truly discipline
ones self. With the power and force one expected from a master, he responded
with: “Command yourself.” He made clear a command is not “trying” or even
a promise. It is a call to action. Something that must be obeyed. “Sorcerers
under- stand discipline as the capacity to face with serenity odds that are
not included in our expectations”.
“Book lovers never go to bed alone.”
Anonymous
“Always act in your own person.”
Stanislavsky
“Do you prefer that you be right or happy?”
“A Course In Miracles”
“It
takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
e.e. cummings