Achieve Quote by Laura Dern

As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

— Jim Rash

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have…

— Misha Collins

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think…

— Ewan McGregor

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're…

— Jonah Hill

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing…

— Atom Egoyan

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I…

— Nicholas Ray

There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they…

— Peter Dinklage

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

— Robert Zemeckis

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of…

— Sean Penn

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's…

— Paddy Considine

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

— Saqib Saleem

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel…

— Andrew Haigh