Staircases Quotes

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that`s a thing people don`t understand. It is that exhausting. If you`re doing it well, if you`re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head..And I don`t think that should get any easier. -- On acting

In the photographs themselves there`s a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

I have a soft spot for secret passageways, bookshelves that open into silence, staircases that go down into a void, and hidden safes. I even have one myself, but I won`t tell you where. At the other end of the spectrum are statistics which I hate with all my heart.