The most important thing for an actor is to listen, not just to the other actors, but to the story and to the moment.
"Stories are the way we teach children how to navigate the world."
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here.
If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.