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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're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

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

My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think about much at all, as it turns out. It's very easy. And then when you step into the director's role, there's this whole universe of stuff that you have to pay attention to that's amazing to me.

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.

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.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.