Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
We are the movies and the movies are us.
In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am and they've opened me up as an actor. I want to take some of that to apply it to when I'm directing actors.
I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.
Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world.
Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.
I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
I had no ambition to become an actor at all.
In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.
I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.
I've always wanted to do a space movie.
Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.
Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.
Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.
I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.
There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.
Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.
Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
