Strasberg’s concern for saying things in the exact right way often led him to overelaborate beyond the point of intelligibility. His extemporaneous speeches became a labyrinth of digressions, associations, and verbal tics like “so to speak,” “as it were,” or “you see.” The listener, entering this maze to find the secret of art at its center, might sometimes find brilliance, but sometimes they would wander down obscure pathways only to wind up right where they had started.
