I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.
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I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.
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.
Being actors is a strange job.
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.
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.
You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.