I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.
In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.
It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.
Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.
When youre the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.
I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly became disillusioned by acting and seeing that in the movies I loved and the TV I loved, no one looked like me. There weren't going to be any leading roles that would be interested in casting someone with my face.
I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.
In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors
Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.
My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.
I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.
An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent, but the point is that if they did train, it would not inhibit them. If they were with a good teacher, it would only broaden them more.
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
