Cinema Quote by Carrie Preston

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

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

— Grant Heslov

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to actors, actually;…

— Martin Donovan

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

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

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to…

— Eli Roth

With actors and directors, it's a conversation that you have. You have to learn each other's language and learn how to communicate with each…

— Ashton Kutcher

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to…

— Peter Dinklage

When there's an actor involved, the actor's talking to the director or the director's talking to the actor. But when there are not those…

— Cherien Dabis

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and…

— Kerry Washington

There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they…

— Peter Dinklage