Typically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting.
In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God. . .
As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.
Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.