Maggie Siff Quotes

Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

No one person is the author of a Bourne film. The truth is it's a coalition of people who share the same vision for Bourne and his world, and we... its remarkably collaborative and collective.

Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.

I think when I work with artists, I'm at their service, and I'm at the service of either their vision or a vision that we find together and we share.

Filmmaking is not a one man show. It is not like I'm thinking something and they are expressing it. I try to pull the actor in and together we try to get the expression. It is not my thinking alone, it is our thinking. The actor also becomes a part of the thought process.

We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that family kind of as a group we're going to do it together mentality in a project. Then the tough part is - so what actually goes has very little to do with us sometimes.

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

I actually like the collaboration of working with different artists.

In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

When I work with artists, I give them a general guideline of what my vision is. Then they're going to speak their minds on how they view it, too. The song that defines 'Neon Future' the best is the title track. I wrote that with Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun. It's through his words. We had an amazing songwriting session together, connecting.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.