You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
I am not a witch! I am a healer,” she cried. “There is a world of difference between the two." “Call yourself whatever you will, Branwyn. Your powers do not scare me. In truth, I sought you out a-purpose in the hopes you would heal me from the ...
You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to then. The domain of the rules was no longer enough for you; you were unable to love any longer in the domain of the rules; so you had to enter into th...
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.
I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.
A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
