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.
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A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
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.
When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
I think that it's important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it's a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.
A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.
No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.
Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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.
When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way.
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