Character Quote by David Nutter

As an actor you have to have the room to play and find the character.

— Simone Missick

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up…

— Andrew Dominik

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

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

— Rachel Joyce

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

— Stanley Tucci

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of…

— Joseph Fiennes

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

— Kristen Stewart

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it…

— Christopher McQuarrie

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director…

— Anne Parillaud

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

— Robert Carlyle