Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that you'll be able to finish the particular work you've begun. It isn't easy to persist amid all that. [...] Some...
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.
People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.
There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.
I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.
The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.
You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.
For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.
Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.
Detroit is full of talent.
This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.
No talent lies in my dancing.
There is so much talent in Australia.
I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.
Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
