Y'know, I never rated The Method very highly until I read Robert Lewis' books (amazon lists Advice to the Players and Method or Madness?) about acting. Not incidentally at all for us as writers, what he talks about is how to inhabit a character fully by placing the character in a richly detailed real world. And not at all incidentally for thinking about Right Living, his point is also that everything matters, that the actor has to think about it and value everything and not throw anything away.

BTW, I have done a little bit of acting, but discovered that (quite apart from not being very talented) I liked rehearsing a lot more than performing.