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.
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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.
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.
My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.
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.
I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
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