Adina Porter Quotes

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

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

I'm a director's actor and go by what they say.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

People really don't understand what actors do.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

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

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

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.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

The gift of working on a Robert O'Hara play is that you have to trust his language. It's all in there. You don't have to add one single thing.

When I do a film, I follow the director.

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

When you are working with actors who are secure, who have nothing really to prove, it gets a lot easier working with them.

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.

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