I have always wanted to get a shirt made up that say: One
Day They Will Find Out I am Fraud!!! Because I not only; live in the “here and
now”, but I surf the” here and now”! A
delicate blade of risk, an edge that I could fall on either side of, however I
trust myself as an artist, I must! I
never know what I am going to teach on the floor or what choices I will make on
the floor (as an actor, director, fight director) – I have guide posts sure – but
I need to see what is out there? What people I will be working with combined
with the content.
Each new day brings a creative opportunity maybe that is all
I am saying here –I am in a constant
state; a creative state – I am not
religious but I am extremely spiritual – I guess at the heart of it I am
closest to a Taoist but I have tweaked that word over the years to mean (for
me) a Nowist – Loa Tsu’s best phrase for me is – “The way that can be talked of –is not
the way” – for me that encapsulates everything we do as artists and everything
we do when trying to pass knowledge on to artists explaining acting cannot be locked down and it
cannot be explained sometimes – it needs to BE
experienced, I always say to student I am not here to “teach” (I do dislike
that word) – I am here to share joy, discoveries, mistakes and fuck ups – that
is my “way” of helping to point them in a way that they can best discover their
“way”.... When I have a class – it should feel like we have in some way just
created something – does that make sense, a class doesn’t just have to be in a
vacuum...
