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I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

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We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?

Sarah Sutton

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I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tony Goldwyn

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I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.

Christian Bale

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In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.

William Sanderson

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But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

Ray Walston

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As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

Ansel Elgort

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If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Timothy Dalton

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I'm an actor's director.

Fred Durst

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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

Octavia Spencer

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It does make you a better director and a better actor.

Charles Keating

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Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

Jennifer Tilly

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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

Cameron Crowe

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There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

Amanda Seyfried

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I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

Grace Poe

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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.

Valeria Golino

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I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

Jonathan Frakes

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As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

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I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

Joe Swanberg

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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

James Franco

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