I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

- Dito Montiel

I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying to keep a job and get by. So in a lot …

- Dito Montiel

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

- Dito Montiel

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's …

- Dito Montiel

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot,…

- Dito Montiel

I like to see people put themselves into films, which is part of the reason why I love Woody Allen films so much - I believe his actors' work. I have…

- Dito Montiel

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their …

- Dito Montiel

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

- Dito Montiel

If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special …

- Dito Montiel