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Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.

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

I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.

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.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.

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.

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.