Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn
Arthur Hiller Penn was an American director and producer of film, television and theater. Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 1960s such as the drama The Chase, the biographical crime film Bonnie and Clydeand the comedy Alice's Restaurant. He also got attention for his revisionist Western Little Big Man...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth27 September 1922
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.
Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue.
I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that underscoring it is a characteristic of my work. That quality is certainly also present in some British actors, but I tend to feel the mechanical and intellectual process is dominant in the British.