She attacks our nerve endings, with a fierce attentiveness and an almost moral tone.

He talked about it having a central spine with these little offshoots, I guess you'd call them nerve-endings, coming off it, ... These little other strands that he kept reiterating, in which every scene had to push that central spine.

Ben came back with a request to respond with the rescue truck in District 1 or in other areas where technical rescues are required,

[The work] resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butterfly we bear within ourselves. And then time passes and the nymph stage never comes, we remain larvae -- what do we do with such an appalling realization?

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.