Tobin Bell Quotes

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

I'm not going to do the story any service if my acting isn't strong.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I am totally a director's actor.

I am a complete director's actor.

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

There's the truth to every moment that you have to bring to every scene, but you have to understand the tonality of the film before you begin, which isn't something that's instinctual to me.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Every actor just wants good writing.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.