Actors Quote by Darren Aronofsky

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.

— George C. Wolfe

Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.

— Martin Landau

There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said something like,…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a…

— Michael Cera

When you take on an acting or dancing role, you have to trust your director, and in some ways there is freedom in relinquishing…

— Craig Revel Horwood

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

— Victoria Abril

Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes…

— Viola Davis

I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't…

— Christian Bale

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel…

— Robert De Niro

I've been very fortunate to work with a lot of directors who understand that actors need to feel empowered in order to really do…

— John Cabrera

Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors…

— James Wan

You have to be willing to be manipulated in the first place because you can either recognize that in your director and then fight…

— Heath Ledger