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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, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.

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.

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.

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

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.