Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.
I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.
The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
