Gal Gadot Quotes

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

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.

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

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

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

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

For me, it has always been about acting and I will do films which are content-driven.

For me, a film is a film, and I just want to be part of good stories to grow as an actor.

For me, a story has to have characters, and my role should be meaningful. At the end of the day, people should say that they like my performance.

I have realised I am a director's actor.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

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

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.