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Method Acting itself is hard to totally nail down, because Stanislavski wrote a ton of stuff, only some of which has been translated. And some of his later stuff actually discounts his earlier work, the stuff we call "Method."
But, from all the work I've done with it, I prefer not to use it. Some of it is useful, the sourcework, for example, helps you from doing something totally unbelievable, but on the whole, with the internal work, I feel like it kills my imagination, and disallows for creative insight. It emphasizes self over character, which feels like denigration. I especially dislike "the Magic If." How I react to something isn't as important as how the character reacts to something.
And Mark Ruffalo is bad-ass.
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Words of Wisdom:
If you could really get to know someone and know that they weren't lying to you, then you would know the world was real. Because you could agree on things, you could compare notes. That must be why people get married or make Art. So they'll be able to really know something and not go insane.
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