Able Quote by Sheryl Lee

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

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong,…

— Quvenzhane Wallis

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

— Amy Adams

The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want…

— Ophelia Lovibond

I'm not one of those actresses that asks what's going to happen. I've never been. I just take the scripts, and I see what's…

— Adina Porter

You're not directing an actor toward a thing they can't achieve. Because direction is elusive. When directors hold respect for the various craftsmen and…

— Laura Dern

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

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

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

— Andre Balazs

“Remember that it is the combination of talents of the director and the actor which produce a perfect performance - and since both of…

— Ursula Markham

As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'

— David Morse

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

— Salman Khan