Cast Quote by Beth Henley

The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.

— Sam Levinson

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

— India Eisley

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at…

— Mark Duplass

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

— Jordi Molla

There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait…

— Tom Sturridge

Many directors try to direct things that are only going to make the actor uncomfortable. You tend to get more out of the actor…

— Neve Campbell

As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it…

— Ricky Whittle

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

— Chris Noth

That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever…

— Drew Goddard

I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if…

— Rishi Kapoor

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing.…

— Brett Young

Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you…

— Ron Livingston