Ask yourself Quote by Gary Oldman

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a…

— Jamie Parker

It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas,…

— Emma Roberts

When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want…

— Max von Sydow

Its always great when a director is just supportive of what youre doing. Theyre not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas,…

— Emma Roberts

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action…

— James Gray

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise…

— Stanley Kubrick

A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.

— Melissa Benoist

When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this…

— Radha Ravi

Everything feels so personal when you're an actor because you're so open and vulnerable, and you have to trust your director to guide you…

— Miriam Shor

When the director narrates the story, I try to understand how he wants me to do my role and I try to deliver that.

— Rao Ramesh

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your…

— Jessica Lange