Cinema Quote by Rocky Carroll

With actors and directors, it's a conversation that you have. You have to learn each other's language and learn how to communicate with each…

— Ashton Kutcher

When there's an actor involved, the actor's talking to the director or the director's talking to the actor. But when there are not those…

— Cherien Dabis

There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the…

— Peter Stone

I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle or all…

— Lynn Shelton

There's not a lot of talking between actors - either between actors or between actors and directors. People think that they sit in rooms…

— Christopher Walken

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're…

— Tatiana Maslany

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

— Grant Heslov

Working in TV, we're in people's living rooms, and everyone has a different relationship to it than with movies. You're there every week; they…

— Josh Holloway

The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.

— Sam Levinson

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like…

— Taylor Handley

I wanted to talk face-to-face with as many people as would see me. Some actors were so busy they could only give me an…

— Mitchell Zuckoff

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

— Richard Donner