The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.
As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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.
I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.
I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.
Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.
Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
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