Quotes About Actors

With some actors, if I have upward of 10 notes, I don't want to give them all 10 notes and overwhelm them. I usually parse them out three or four at a time.

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.