Paint before you think

Paint before you think

Paint first, and think about it after words! Act without thinking! Respond without thinking! Be so away from controlling how you respond that you set your authentic. truthful self free. Focus away from self so completely that you don’t have anything left in your...

About Preparation and Imagination: Put yourself in the picture.

I find it very beneficial to put myself into the visual images the written material suggests to me. I make my own movie in my imagination. I see in my mind’s eye the visual scenes described by the writer. I visualize the who, what, why, where, and when of the premise...

Truthful Self Expression In Film Acting : The value and necessity.

Truthful self expression to me means the freedom to express my thoughts, feelings, opinions, and emotions about my experience of life in this moment without any judgment or conditioning. Only with this freedom do we get the individual, unique, one of a kind, there...
Creating

Creating

I like to think of film acting as an art form because it lets me examine creating. That’s my understanding of what art is: creation. We have the opportunity each time we work to express our experience of the moment through our individual unique self, by allowing the...