I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my visi….
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive..
There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part of me where I'm like, "I real….
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything..
I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a dir….
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working ….
I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors..
Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend, ….
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director..
I've worked with Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks. I've worked with some really good directors: Woody Allen, Paul Schrader... My God, ….
I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me..
Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me o….
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really li….
I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director..
When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable..
You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing..
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful,….
I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the ….
The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] unde….
I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid..
Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is g….