Daily Inspiration Quote by Vicky Krieps

Blind trust sounds like a bad life policy and a great acting note. When Vicky Krieps frames it as the "secret" to good acting and directing, she is cutting against the myth of the actor as solitary genius who brute-forces authenticity through willpower. Acting is collaboration, but the collaboration only works when someone is allowed to steer. Her phrasing is almost provocatively absolutist: not trust with safeguards, not trust earned slowly, but "blind trust" - the kind that suspends self-protection.

The intent here is practical, not mystical. Krieps is describing a working method where the actor stops performing competence and starts accepting guidance, even when it feels wrong in the moment. That is where interesting work often lives: in choices that an actor would never authorize from inside their own taste, vanity, or fear of looking foolish. "Blind" also hints at the psychological bargain on set: you surrender control of your image to a director who is literally arranging where the audience will look, what they will know, and when they will judge you.

The subtext is a little darker: this kind of surrender is risky, and the industry has plenty of directors who take more than they give. So when Krieps elevates blind trust, she is also describing an ideal situation - a director worthy of it - and implicitly naming how rare that can be. Coming from an actress known for precise, interior performances, it reads less like naivete than like discipline: a decision to trade ego for discovery, and to treat control as the enemy of surprise.