Quotes About Method

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

History is not the past - it is the method we have evolved to organize our ignorance of the past. It is the record of what's left on the record... It is no more 'the past' than a birth certificate is a birth, or a script is a performance, or a map is a journey.

History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past

It is always best to understand the proper way of doing something before you find your own way.

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

Maybe, I think, happiness is simply order.

The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives.

I try to acquire some new approach with each role in order to build up a varied acting technique.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.

My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.

Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song.

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of verses or a certain set of chords. I can match them up quicker now than I used to. The one thing you do improve is songwriting.

Of course I had. That's how I do it.

IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, a more reliable alternative came along, and it is still the most common induction method today. This is Pitocin

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.