Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
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Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
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 believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.
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.
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
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.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.
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