It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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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.
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.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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 far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.
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.
Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.
An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.
As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.
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.