Quotes About Performance

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance.

After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I've directed fragmentarily at the Herod Atticus, but never before a popular laiko unitals concert.

I think the biggest advice I would give to any actor who's directing and also acting at the same time is don't even watch your coverage. You do a scene, and then, you know what you did; it doesn't matter what you look like.

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.

When I'm directing a film, I can't do any more than appear in a song.

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel like that happens, directing the actors is pretty much done at that point.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

When you're a comic doing a special, it's like you're directing your first movie.

It is not easy acting and directing yourself because you have to face the camera as well as look at the scene through the lens.