John Wells Quotes

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.

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.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.

Any skill requires training. I took the corporate approach to acting and wanted to develop the necessary skills.

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to running around and being busy on sets. I lack the actor software.

I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor.

I want to continue working with actors who truly enjoy the process of acting.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

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