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Roles make the actor.

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

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.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.