Andrei Tarkovsky, acting in Aleksander Gordon's Sergey Lazo. It should be a rule that every film director experience the actor's role. This is a great way of learning how to communicate with your actors and how to empathize with them since being in front of a camera and bearing your soul is quite a feat, one that should be respected and appreciated. On acting, Andrei Tarkovsky: "Original, unique expressiveness—that is the essential attribute of the cinema actor, for nothing less can become infectious on the screen or express the truth. For the actor to be brought to the required state of mind the director has to empathize with the character. There is no other way of finding the right note for the performance. You cannot, for instance, go into an unknown house and start shooting a rehearsed scene. It is an unfamiliar house, inhabited by strangers, and naturally enough it cannot help a character from a different world to express himself. The director's first, very specific task is to convey to the actor the whole truth of the state of mind that has to be achieved. Naturally, different actors have to be approached in different ways.”
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