Time.

Is a question you’ve considered often and will continue to do so.

Pick up the pace. Pick up your cues. Speak quicker. Feel the rhythm of the scene. Take a beat.

A pause.

Shooting a commercial you’re under strict time guidelines. You might be asked to do a reaction in 4.5 seconds and continuity will be timing you with a stopwatch. Acting in precise time to the second.

Audition time. Call time. Time you’re wrapped.

The many actor’s questions you ask. The time of day, the time the story is set in, how old is your character, how much time does the story cover, time between scenes.

Time between lines. Speed of your character’s mind. Other character’s minds. Time passing in the story. Pace of the film.

The time when you start after action is called. Time after cut. 

‘That actors got good timing.’

Literal time. Figurative time.

And Shakespeare writes:

Let every man be master of his time.
Nothing ‘gainst Times scythe can make defence.
We are Times’ subject and Time bids be gone.
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right.

There are hundreds of expressions using time. Here’s a few: A race against time. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.   A stitch in time.  Time and tide wait for no man. In the nick of time.   Time brings all things to pass.  Time is money.  Everything in its own time.  It’s high time.  Third time’s a charm.

Time might be the answer to all questions.