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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.

— Charlotte Rampling

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

— David Zayas

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.

— Ansel Elgort

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.

— Eli Roth

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

— Sean Bean

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

— Chadwick Boseman

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

— Omar Epps

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.

— Anne Parillaud

✗Opposing Perspectives

An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.

— Anupam Kher

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.

— Bill Condon