To Thrill a Mockingbird
Aunt Alexandra spends a lot of time in the novel trying to rub her femininity onto Scout.
The great actor and teacher Herbert Berghof said, “Words are the messengers of our wishes.” The playwright reveals the desires and intentions of the character using both description of action and the lines the character is to speak. When a stage direction prescribes an action, perhaps saying…
The character was only referred to as ‘Scott.’ So I thought, okay, this guy Scott is in a scene with a character called Ernest and a character named Zelda. Is Woody Allen writing a movie about F. Scott Fitzgerald? But there was this other character called Gil, and I couldn’t figure out who Gil was!
I showed up on the set the first day, doing rehearsals and camera tests and I asked Owen [Wilson], and I swear this is the God’s honest truth, I had to ask him who exactly Gil was. He said, ‘Oh no no, I’m from now. See, there’s this time machine.‘
– It took a loooong time for Tom Hiddleston to understand what the hell was going on in Midnight in Paris. (via entertainmentweekly) Via Entertainment WeeklyI gave my first ever commencement speech to the graduating class of 2012 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
I think I told them everything important that I knew about going out into the world and being an artist, so I may never need to give another one.
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Via Neil Gaiman
About me
Surviving brain cancer, Admissions officer at a college, X-Men, Star Trek, Final Fantasy, Everwood, Glee, X-Box 360, ballet, music, arts, 42.
