Richard Farnsworth Quotes

Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.

I remember years ago I was an extra, just an extra, and instead of asking me to move - he was a big fella - the director just picked me up and moved me. And I headbutted him. You know, he shouldn't have done that, but I shouldn't have done that either. I just done it.

I've never really had a competitive relationship in any work situation.

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all.... Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

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

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work with a director that I idolize. So, the idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect.

My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.

I neither throw my weight around nor do I bully anyone on the set.

Denzel is the type of director that its more about working with him than working for him. He wants you to be thinking about everything.

I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.

I've never had any prima donna attitude against me. It's always been very respectful.

What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?

Once, I had a huge fight on a film set with an actor who threw tea on a spot boy's face. I refused to shoot until he apologised.

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.

I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.

Mojang doesn't want to just have work relationships, they want social relationships between friends.

I'm not big on rookie hazing. I didn't wanna be hazed as a rookie, so I definitely didn't want to do it to others.

Sometimes when you walk onto a set, there are very clear delineations. The crew don't talk to the actors and I hate all that. Everyone is the same to me and I always treat everyone in the same way.