To demonstrate his devotion to method acting, he puts a knife to a director's throat; he insults fellow actors.
His work has been marked by a ferocious devotion to method acting: he took a full year of preparation to play Abraham Lincoln, which is rumoured to have involved speaking only in Lincoln's Kentucky accent and remaining in presidential solitude throughout the shoot.
But Downey finds it impossible to remain serious for too long, mischievously poking fun at his co-star, whose devotion to Method acting resulted in him spending time in a Russian jail prior to filming: "How bad-ass was Mickey with those whips?" he grins.
Older artists like Driver, many of whom are struggling to scrounge together enough money to retire, are often mystified by Roth's devotion to antiquated, time-consuming methods.
China and India shared a tendency to look inward, a devotion to past ideals and methods, a respect for authority and a suspicion of new ideas.
He told the university composers, for example, that it was time to abandon intellectual complexity for its own sake, and to write music that audiences could embrace — this despite his own devotion to the 12-tone method, which many listeners regarded as the root of the audience's estrangement.
Mr. Cameron's devotion to next-generation 3-D methods has raised enormous expectations around a film made with technology that some people predict could have an impact on movies comparable to the introduction of sound.
By the mid-2000s hadhad established a reputation in the rock underground for his songwriting skill and devotion to do-it-yourself production methods, as well as for a sometimes belligerent stage manner.
Munishri Ajitchandrasagarji follows a knowledge recollection method centered on devotion to Saraswati.
Hsieh, one of Taiwan's leading medical educators, stated that good clinical teachers should support an educational philosophy with enthusiasm in and devotion to teaching, and sound teaching content and methods.
Although they criticized his methods, those who worked under Bannon acknowledged a tireless devotion to creating an empire too influential to ignore, and his success so far.
