Sandra Bullock Quotes

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

As a director, it became important to hear that specific role read by that specific actor, and you hear the chemistry, or you don't hear the chemistry. So I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.

Nobody knows the pulse of the audience. By the grace of God, things are working for me.

As an actor, one is constantly reading scripts and interacting with creative teams. Sometimes, things work and sometimes, they don't. It's never in an actor's hands.

Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working with, how the other actor works.

I think all the roles were something that sort of hit me, and I guess I was very lucky to get those roles.

I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

What attracted to me about it was the cast. Working on 'New Girl' - I like working with an ensemble.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to contribute to, people approach me and say, 'Hey, would you like to do this?' I laugh out loud and say, 'Yes, that'd be funny.' Or, I'm very moved by what I read and say, 'Yes. How can I help you?'

It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of months.

The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.

As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing it many times over.

When you work with good actors, you feed off each others' energies.

I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.

Even though I'm a competitive girl, I don't see competition in this industry because every actor and actress has a unique personality that they bring to their films, which is why they get the parts they get.

The thing I learned from watching Iain Glen and Brendan Gleeson, and Aidan Gillen and Michael Fassbender when I worked with them, there's a huge element of leading something. It's the atmosphere and dynamic you're creating on set.

Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.

Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from 'Hello,' and other times, it takes a few weeks to develop that.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there, you better focus on getting there because, as we live with these characters, we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.

And being an actor already means that working with cast as a director, I have a clear understanding of their position and that collaboration is great and useful.