No I don't really write thinking about specific actors…

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest…

— Iain Banks

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I…

— Claude Chabrol

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I can watch movies that I've been in, and if there's an emotional scene, I remember specifically what I was using, what I was…

— Eva Marie Saint

“All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now.”

— Iain M. Banks

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

I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them because of…

— Jim Jarmusch

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

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

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Simone Signoret