You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead.
After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder that was thick and some people had a folder that was thin. And there's no fairness to it because it's not a fair business.
I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.
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.
As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
I had no idea whether I could play 'em or not, but I wanted to and I was very determined. . . but the band director said #That's not really normal. ' Of course, all you have to tell me is that something's not normal and I'll go for it!!
I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.
If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?
You see these actordirector relationships in the celebrity world and you understand why. The director knows which buttons to push and it makes it so much more familiarized.
I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.
In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this. " But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.
I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.
Directors never give you anything.
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
I depend on good editors and a good director.
The best thing that I learned from the best directors that I worked with is that the best answer wins. They are ego-less when it comes to doing the most important thing.
No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.