I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
I don't like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it's a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors.
As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.
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.