It does make you a better director and a better actor.
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I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
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Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
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I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
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If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.
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If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, ""What do you want?"" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
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I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
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I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.
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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
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