When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
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When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.
It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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