Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.
I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.
The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.
I just love working with actors in general.
That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.
I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.
It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing.
I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.
That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.
I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier
The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
Where radical Islamism is going to be a factor, it's going to be very, very tough.
I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.
There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.
I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.
As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.
As a director and an actor, it is very difficult to say "this person was better than another person." I judge by chemistry of the actors but it is difficult being a judge. I will never bash any of the actors.
If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the process.
