Romany Malco Quotes

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

I just love the process of working with other 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.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

With acting, it's like you form chemistry with different people in different ways, so it's really added even more fun to work, you know?

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

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.

You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.

I've gotten to work with people like Kristin Chenoweth and Chita Rivera... Seeing their process is so interesting. Seeing that these people aren't immortal - that they go through the same motions as we do and ask for feedback and break down scenes... They have to work, too, and that's really exciting to see.

'Cloud' and 'Flower' are very much egocentric about my own expression. 'Flow' is more utilitarian, and 'Journey' is more about collaboration between various creative voices in the team.

I like collaborating with actors. I love finding that moment where it all comes together.

But the best part about being actors and married to each other is that you can discuss work and take feedback from each other.

I'm one that likes to collaborate. I love feeding off the creative energy, and it only makes me better.

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.