Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.
Michael ShurtleffCompetition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.
Michael ShurtleffNo matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.
Michael ShurtleffEveryone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.
Michael Shurtleff