Kim Jee-woon Quotes

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.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

The single most important thing in learning my craft was being on the stage.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

I've never found acting that difficult.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

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

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.