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The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.

There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.

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.

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

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.

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.