Directing Actors Quotes

• I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

  Atom Egoyan

  Mean, Actors, May

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

  Richard Marquand

  Cameras, Directors, Actors

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• And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.

  Julie Delpy

  Important, Actors, Ends

  "Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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• I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them.

  Woody Allen

  Hands, Actors, Easy

  "INTERVIEW: Woody Allen Gets 'Sweet and Lowdown'". Interview with Brandon Judell, www.indiewire.com. December 7, 1999.

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• In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am and they've opened me up as an actor. I want to take some of that to apply it to when I'm directing actors.

  Dave Franco

  Who I Am, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Interesting, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work.

  Steve Coogan

  Grateful, Writing, Gun

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Thinking, Order, Acting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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