Actors Quote by Eric Balfour

As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to…

— Diego Luna

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur…

— Luca Guadagnino

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's…

— Shawn Levy

Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically…

— Gina Bellman

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you…

— Eric Balfour

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot…

— Ansel Elgort

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting.…

— Ian Somerhalder

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

A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place…

— Annette Bening

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

— Kalki Koechlin

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the…

— Aamir Khan

The directing thing, to do it well, I think you have to have a hell of a lot more discipline than I do, or…

— Janeane Garofalo