The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.
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I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.
First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.
Actors were the first people to accept me.
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
I thought acting was just going on and remembering all of one's lines.
Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.
I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.