Soha Ali Khan Quotes

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.

I am totally a director's actor.

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

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.

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

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.

Scorsese is a fan of improv and is always pushing actors to think up something that would make the scene more fun. He loves any idea that helps the scene be alive.

It helps for actors if you have one director.

I think listening to the director is the number one strength an actor should have.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

A director like Ram Gopal Varma brings out a different dimension in your performance.

A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What you're helping them with is all the stuff they cannot be in control of.

The rehearsal process is the biggest gift you can give to the director and to yourself as an actor because it allows you to shape the character and the scenes.

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.