Always Quote by Mike Flanagan

I really feel that actors should really know who they are as characters; they should really study their lines; they should be prepared; but…

— Oren Moverman

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm…

— Jodie Foster

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

— Philippe Falardeau

Every actor prepares a scene in their own way. For me, it's about understanding the scenario, the room I'm going to be working in,…

— Manisha Koirala

I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I…

— David Leitch

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I…

— Peter Weir

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and…

— Lars von Trier

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

— Alan J. Pakula

There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are…

— Paddy Considine

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

— Guillermo del Toro

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing…

— Karan Singh Grover