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I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

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.

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

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.