Sibel Kekilli Quotes

I select good scripts, and every role is an opportunity to enhance my histrionic skills.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

I've always found that I have to audition, but that's a process that I kind of enjoy. I enjoy the challenge, and 'We're The Millers' was the same. It was a long audition process that I had to go through, but I enjoyed the challenge of that.

As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.

I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.

I knew I am not star material. I cannot sing or dance, nor am I good for action. I can only perform for which strong, diverse roles are needed.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.

There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

Honestly, a lot of the time the character roles are the best roles.

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.