The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
James Lipton

The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.
James Lipton

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
James Lipton

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
James Lipton

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
James Lipton

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.
James Lipton

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
James Lipton