Wednesday, May 28, 2008

I love it when the visceral pleasure of reading the Journal combines with words as gratifying as the font they are printed in.

Best paragraph of today's Wall Street Journal (the rest of the article is intriguing as well), courtesy a widely accomplished Jonathan Miller:

"And that's what directing is: noticing tiny details. You remind actors that when people are thinking out loud or talking to someone they don't make huge gestures with their hands. They'll often just run their hands along the table, and their eyes will be absentmindedly preoccupied with the movement of their fingers. That's what it's about. That's all it's about: those heaps of negligible details which are us on the road to the grave."

5 comments:

Daniel Nadal said...

Quoting the 3rd to last paragraph effectively results in us having to read the full article to get the context. Brilliant.

Kaitlin said...

Well, you didn't have to read the whole thing. That was the best part, after all...

Daniel Nadal said...

But, see, I would not complain about having read an otherwise intriguing article about this person who, apparently, is the 5th smartest person in Britain.

(Go figure.)

He sounds a touch ... the word evades me.

Kaitlin said...

Self-indulgent?

Daniel Nadal said...

That works.

The word that popped into my mind, though I had no idea why or how it even fits what was said about him, was belligerent.

I can't say that I would want to meet him.