SPONTANEOUS INSPIRATION
The quality that defines life is spontaneity. Any good creative process has moments of spontaneous inspiration, flashes of insight, great ideas, sudden-understanding. I don't know where it comes from, but everyone has to understand that all successful creative processes are accompanied by these moments.When I was inspired and did what I dreamed acting was, I wasn't doing what I had been taught, It was intensely personal, but it wasn't MY life. I went beyond, my habits. I didn't forget who I was. I focused on a dynamic, imaginary world, creating a new life that synthesized real, and imaginary, realities.
INTENTIONAL DREAMING
Dreaming while you are awake, discovering the essential realities in the play, intuitively and consciously; in what I call the personal dream space, is my favorite part of the creative process.Focusing on putting yourself in another human beings world, so that you can think about life from the inside of the character. Then, and only then, do you begin to understand the characters life, and be able to discover realities you choose to focus on. These realities draw you into the world you imagine. Learning what to focus on is one of the hardest techniques of the creative process to master.
TALENT
Talent is simply the natural capacity to perceive reality. Talent expresses what it perceives by creating a new form of life. Simply put, talented people perceive and express realities the rest of us don't see.
IMAGINATION
Imagination is fundamental to creativity. With Imagination, one changes reality. Every technique anyone teaches, or needs to learn, in the creative process, depends on how much imagination one has, and whether one can use it, focus it on realities that ones talent perceives in the characters life.
ORGANIC THINKING
Intelligence, real, organic thought feels different from intellectualized thoughts that are distanced from feeling and intuition. Real thought is a sensation that you learn to recognize. You aren't thinking about acting techniques, or making a plan representing your ideas of the text. Real thought involves you in whatever you are thinking about.
TRANSFORMATION
Your deep involvment enables you to Transform. Whether you actually become someone else, or are simply going beyond yourself, and the habits of thought and behavior you are comfortable with, remains to be understood. It doesn't matter. Either way, you create a new life.
SENSE OF TRUTH
The Sense of Truth regulates the entire Creative Process. Without the Sense of Truth, there is no way to know what is real. You begin to trust yourself; like an athlete. You become your best friend. You integrate your growing perceptions of yourself, and life, with your expanding knowledge of plays and characters. Your Sense of Direction develops, and you begin to recognize the feeling you have when your real thoughts and intuitions are on the right track.
LOVE AND DETERMINATION
These are the most obvious laws. Success is only possible when you have Love and Determination. Only with love and determination can you overcome your fears, doubts, and solve the problems that are normal to encounter.
Mastering the process doesn't mean you will always create a work of art. Nothing guarantees that you can create a work of art. You can become highly professional, where, even on a bad night you play the play well.
It's a strange reality, that actors experience pleasure when they suffer; when they choose to experience what their character lives. You suffer, in the negative sense, when you are not experiencing what the character is living through.
Hopefully, like an athlete, you learn the difference between good pain and bad pain. And, that success is the process itself; accompanied by a feeling of profound pleasure.
Art is a conscious and intuitive process. Learning the laws and the basics of the Organic Creative Process take one to three years, mastering, seven to ten. A master devotes his life working and learning; like in any domain of human endeavor.
Your process evolves through an interactive dialogue with me; before, during, and after the scene. Your interpretation and individuality evolve effortlessly; invention is natural. No two human beings are exactly alike. After all, an artist has something to say about life. And, an actor in a moment of inspiration is a living work of art.