I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
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I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.
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Directors are supposed to help the audience. Good directors don't direct actors.
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Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
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I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
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I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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Directors, like actors, get typecast.
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Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
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I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.
quote by Ivan Reitman
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I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
quote by Franka Potente
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In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
quote by Kelly Lynch
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Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
quote by Ben Stiller
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I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
quote by Jonathan Frakes
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
quote by Thornton Wilder
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The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.