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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting.…

— Ian Somerhalder

I've seen what a difference a good director can make to an actor's performance.

— Soha Ali Khan

It's incumbent upon a director, if you want to pull the best performance out of an actor, you have to really work to who…

— Anthony Russo

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

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a…

— Howard Shore

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so…

— Shane Meadows

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful…

— Grant Heslov

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

— Kalki Koechlin

I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling…

— Michael Haneke

It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a…

— Jason Bateman

Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can give a…

— Rachel Weisz

I was working with actors who were very easy to work with, but I can just imagine how, with all the other decision-making problems…

— Rick Heinrichs