Quotes About Interpretation

I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.

Directing is so dope to me, man, 'cause it doesn't necessarily have to be your material. You're making someone else's material come to life. There's something amazing about that.

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.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

The audience has always been my best director.

I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors.

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.

There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.

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

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

Directors never give you anything.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to actors, actually; some of the best directors don't.

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

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

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