“The actor’s technique is that personal and very private means by which you get the best out of yourself. Every actor does it differently. There’s never been an artist alive who didn’t have to deal with form and content. Those who deal only with content are the ones who act with their guts, but who’s interested in their guts? We’re interested in Hamlet’s guts, or Richard III’s guts, and you have to be heard in the back row. Of course you must have content, but you’ve got to have form. The thing is to marry the two so the form isn’t noticed. Form without content, forget it.”
Hume Cronyn (quoted in the New York Times, June 17, 2003)