My Life in Pieces (2012)
“If I sometimes seem combative, it is largely because there is, as I say elsewhere more than once, no broad debate about these matters, no sense of differing passionate views. The consensus prevails. As I did when I wrote Being an Actor, I feel that more, so much more, can be asked of actors and of acting. Occasionally an actor emerges who is in himself so original, whose choices are so unexpected that, like Charles Laughton eighty years ago, he shakes up the whole concept of what an actor can d...o. In the present time, Mark Rylance is such an actor. But what would be thrilling to me would be if whole companies were inspired by their own particular vision of acting. In Being an Actor I made a comparison with orchestras: why could acting companies not be self-governing, as orchestras were, hiring their own directors just as the musicians hired their conductors? But there is a more melancholy orchestral comparison to be made now: with every passing year, orchestral standards get higher and higher, but it becomes harder and harder to distinguish these orchestras from each other, except in terms of corporate excellence.MoreLess
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