Cinema Quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman

As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals…

— Jason Priestley

Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director, you're responsible…

— Justin Chon

My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist…

— Anthony Heald

Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is what I…

— Mathieu Demy

As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't know what…

— Gillian Jacobs

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors…

— Michel Hazanavicius

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

— Michael Caine

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

— Maggie Siff

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

— Jordi Molla

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

— Josh Hartnett

I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

— Max von Sydow

Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.

— Jimmi Simpson