Vivek Oberoi Quotes

When I did 'Kaaka Muttai,' I was a very raw actor. Director Manikandan brought out the best in me.

I've seen what a difference a good director can make to an actor's performance.

Every actor wants to direct.

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.

I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.

It helps for actors if you have one director.

My biggest inspiration is to work with interesting filmmakers and learn from them in any way that I can.

The better the acting is, the less visible the director and the less visible the actor.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

I think it makes such a huge difference when the director has acting experience as well because it just means that he not only has a view of the film as a whole and the intentions of the scene in terms of the audience, he also has an actor's instinct of how to communicate something to us.

For me it is important to mould myself as the director wants. That's my challenge as an actor.

I'm a director's actor, and I surrender myself to the vision and the process. I think nothing else matters then.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.