Tag: Robert Loggia (1930–2015)

[on being 100% natural in every film to the point where he’s always himself] Which is boring to the audience and boring to me. In the old days, I used to prepare, run around the block, do push-ups, psych it up, all that. When I say conceptual, I mean that I read the script, and it’s ingested. There was a book, by Arthur Koestler, called “The Art of Creation”. One of his examples was that Handel [George Frideric Handel] dreamed “The Messiah”; when he awakened, he set it right down on paper. There’s a certain truth for me in that as an actor. I do dream it, I do conceive it, and it’s there.