When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.
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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.
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
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.
As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
I'm an actor; I'm not a director.
After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.
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.
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