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I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.