American Quote by Rod Steiger

Every actor has his or her own style, so it is the duty of the director to mould it the way they want.

— Priyadarshan

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to…

— Lee Hall

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that…

— Ray Walston

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the…

— Adrian Pasdar

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

— Sarah Lancashire

I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with each other,…

— Arthur Penn

At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.

— Ben Mendelsohn

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

— Mark Consuelos

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

— Jonathan Lethem

As actors, it's kind of hard to distill exactly the difference in our approach in terms of different genres and tones. It's always just…

— Greta Lee

Sometimes you can just have a dialogue with an actor beforehand and shape the performance then, but other actors need more guidance on the…

— Sam Levinson