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I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.

— Richard Attenborough

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

— Lasse Hallstrom

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.

— Peter Dinklage

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.

— Jeff Nichols

As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

— Jim Rash

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

— Jason Statham

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

— Bill Hader

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

— Janet Suzman

I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.

— Pawel Pawlikowski

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

— Alan J. Pakula

✗Opposing Perspectives

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

— Fanny Brice