When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.
I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.
[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".
Drugs won't enhance your performance.
Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
performance is an act of faith.
Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.
Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.
The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.
There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.
I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.
As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.
No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.
I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give.
A novel is a performance you have to plan.
You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.
Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.
I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.
Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
