Quotes About Understanding

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

I do have a lot of care, concern, and compassion for disadvantaged people.

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

You can have a great, deep connection with somebody and still disagree with their actions.

Yeah, you can disagree with someone and still be cool - that's a thing!