Doug Jones Quotes

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.

What I feel is great acting might be rubbish for another filmmaker. There is no right or wrong way to do it. It all boils down to the trust between an actor and a director.

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

J.J. Abrams and I met, and we just had this incredible kind of vibe between us.

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same language.

One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and I feel it, too.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

I share a lovely relationship with Javed Saab. I understand his method of working.

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.

I am very pleased to be working with director Woo.

You can't do seven successful albums and just hate each other. Our yin and yang, and night and day, is what made us great when we went into the studio.