My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.
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As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.
Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director, you're responsible for every little thing.
There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
For me, as an actor, it's always about getting out of my own way. I can put so much pressure on myself to keep up and make my director happy instead of being in the moment.
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