Word: paule
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...anything that's truthful. Most of the time, you're just trying to when you do these larger Hollywood movies that are very genre- specific, they try to just get you to do it by numbers and cry on cue, and, you know what I mean? With Paul, it's like, even if the thing is so close to home, it never bothers me, because it's that much more truthful and it's that much more original, you know? It's always stranger than fiction...
...know you've done a lot of stage work. Is it closer to stage work working with Paul then, because it is tapping more into a personal experience...
...Yeah.... I hadn't ever thought of it that way, but a lot of the great strength I think he has is as an audience. You know, people think of directors as, "Now go there! Go there! Now do this! Now, turn those lights up!" Paul can do all of that, but I think his real, like, secret weapon with actors is, he really listens. He's sitting there...staring intently at what you're doing and watching every single subtle little change that you make from take to take, and gets in there and talks with you about...
...history of the times is largely a history of the Dutch fighting the Spanish, the Protestants at war with Catholics. In the arena of art, the focal conflict is the war between the Dutch Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens, the most popular artist of the previous generation and a court painter of the Spanish Habsburgs. A good chunk of this thick, richly illustrated book is about Rubens' background and family; Rembrandt himself is barely mentioned for an entire chapter. Schama compares paintings and history to show the anxious influence at work between Rembrandt and his older, more popular precursor. Rembrandt...
...Schama's reverence for Rembrandt and art in general winds up being both a virtue and a vice. The book begins with an epigraph from Paul Valry: "We should apologize for daring to speak about painting." It is difficult to imagine a guide through this world who is more well-versed and in love with his subject. But do we really want our biographers to be respectful to the point of silence? Nobody wants to learn about the masters from a guide who finds them too sublime to defile with comment. Granted, a hefty book like this is hardly "silence...