So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
Interpretation
Acting requires an understanding of the character, often enhanced by technical elements like lighting.
In this quote, Ralph Fiennes emphasizes the importance of both the technical aspects of filmmaking, such as lighting, and the emotional connection an actor must develop with their characters. He suggests that by gaining intimacy and understanding of a character, an actor can cultivate a genuine love for that character, even for traditionally villainous roles such as Voldemort.
In practice
This quote could be shared in a drama class to emphasize character development.
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.
Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.
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