Manisha Koirala Quotes

I have realised I am a director's actor.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

I am a director's actress in general - I depend a lot on them.

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different directors in so many different things, a lot of them don't really know how to talk to us.

I am totally a director's actor.

It helps for actors if you have one director.

One rule which applies to every role is that you have to surrender yourself to the director with an empty slate.

I'm a director's actor, and I surrender myself to the vision and the process. I think nothing else matters then.

When I find those actors who are going to work that hard and collaborate that deeply, my role is to make sure there's a whole lot there for them to work with.

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.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.