Actors Quote by David Mamet

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

— Julia Barr

There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and…

— Will Smith

Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I…

— Oren Peli

Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.

— Richard Gere

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into…

— Gore Vidal

Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.

— Karthik Subbaraj

When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

— Andy Garcia

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out…

— Miranda Otto

Sometimes, actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an…

— Evan Peters

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

— Jonathan Lethem

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the…

— Alan Cumming