#iv

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ↗

— John Burroughs

#difficult #distant #great #great opportunity #lure

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. ↗

— John Burroughs

#always #balls #five #juggle #key

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. ↗

— William Burroughs

#games #may #nature #other #ours

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#knowledge #only #relative #superficial #your

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#be kind #def #director #drums #festival

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#i #myself #position #privileged #seriously

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#always #comfortable #different #different personalities #element

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#assigned #could #history #i #i think

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#agent #boyfriend #buy #ended #enough

In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#competing #cumulative #effect #entirely #every