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Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

— Jake Johnson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

— Eli Roth

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

— Dan Gilroy

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

— Ian Somerhalder

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.

— Drew Goddard

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.

— Jeff Bridges

✗Opposing Perspectives

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.

— Shawn Levy

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.

— Jeff Nichols

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

— Luke Evans

Great directors turn in mediocre work, and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

— Thomas Jane