Miles Teller Quotes

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.

Directing is an act of interpretation.

When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit it, you paint in those little spaces and tell them what direction to go in.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

Directing is a tremendous art.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.