I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.
Interpretation
Collaboration and connection among performers enhances the collective experience on stage.
This quote by Michael Arden emphasizes the importance of unity and equality among performers in a theatrical setting. By insisting on connecting with everyone involved, he highlights the idea that each person's contribution is vital to the success of the performance, fostering a sense of teamwork and shared responsibility that enhances the artistic expression and experience for both the performers and the audience.
In practice
In a team meeting to discuss a new project, I might say, 'As Michael Arden said, we are all in it together, and everyone's an equal part.'
The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose β there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.
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