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QUOTE: 12/24/14

12/24/2014

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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH in FAST COMPANY:

Q: I IMAGINE THE HARDEST PART IS DECIDING WHICH THINGS YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW.

A: You just have to go for what's really necessary first, and then, God willing, there's time to get lost in stuff that's just a diversion but as illuminating as the stuff you need to know. I'm not a math PhD, I'm not a programmer or cryptographer of any sort. The science that I try to understand is often about sense memory. Even if it's something as simple as copying what the art department has done. I'm an okay drawer and craftsman, and their work is always so ridiculously involved. With Turing, I just asked how they copied his schematics and they showed me, and then I copied their copy, so it was two removes from him. But even doing that, before takes, in between takes, and then obviously during takes, made me have some entitlement to pretending to be this intellect, because I was at least creating something that he'd done. That's really satisfying.

(emphasis mine)


ANNE BOGART'S BLOG "THE BUSINESS OF BUSYNESS"

(lots of great quotes from this one, read it all in the link above)

  • When I stopped saying “I’m busy,” I stopped feeling busy. And when I stopped feeling busy I stopped feeling tired. Perhaps busyness is a state of mind that is self-programmed, put into automatic drive and that profoundly affects the moment-to-moment experience of living. 
  • Perhaps there is such thing as temporal intelligence. Perhaps the theater is an activity that can stimulate and cultivate temporal intelligence. Or perhaps temporal intelligence is simply another way of expressing the idea of patience. But because the theater specializes in issues of time and space, it is the perfect medium to address the time-illness that currently plagues our culture. If temporal intelligence can be fostered and developed in the theater, then it starts with the theater artists. We need to become hyper sensitive to issues of time.
  • The theater is in a unique position to offer alternatives to the fast pace and panic of our times. One of the most powerful aspects of the theater is the artists’ ability to alter the audience’s sensation of time by consciously changing the time signature. We can change the experience of time by first paying attention how time passes.

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