I like to work with actors that have varied experiences…

I work with different actors with varied degrees of experience.

— Sean Baker

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

— Simone Signoret

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

— Ali Fazal

With a great writer and a great writers' room, it makes the job of the actors way easier and much more enjoyable, too.

— Melissa Barrera

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one…

— David Selby

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

— Grant Heslov

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's…

— Idris Elba

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors…

— Lynn Shelton

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

— Olivier Martinez

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

— Lorene Scafaria

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

— Noah Baumbach

I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show.

— Pamela Adlon

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going…

— Gus Van Sant

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie,…

— Drake Doremus