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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

— Idris Elba

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

— Christine Vachon

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

— Ron Silver

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

— Paddy Considine

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

— Todd Haynes

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

— Frank Oz

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

— Jodie Foster

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

— Alan Cumming

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

— Steve Kanaly

✗Opposing Perspectives

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

— Rachel Ward

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

— Danny Boyle