With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you’ll get new pages at the last moment. We have to incorporate that into what it is that we’re doing. Michael Stuhlbarg Read Quote
I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there’s a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness. Michael Stuhlbarg Read Quote
With each job that you’re given an opportunity to do, you’re asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn’t use with the last show. Michael Stuhlbarg Read Quote
When I try to go with what’s happening and embrace that as much as I can, it seems to be a much smoother journey for me. Michael Stuhlbarg Read Quote
Scorsese is a fan of improv and is always pushing actors to think up something that would make the scene more fun. He loves any idea that helps the scene be alive. Michael Stuhlbarg Read Quote