There’s really no reason to study any footage of yourself, ever, unless you’re in the company of a voice coach or acting coach or publicist who is asking you to do so. You need to recognize that you can’t process your own image accurately. You look at footage and see a cringey monster. That’s not the way it looks to anyone else. We’re all like... See more

“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the... See more