Adam Driver Quotes

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

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

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

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.

I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.

For me, the more talented the actor is that I'm working with, the easier my job is because the circumstances of a scene are easier to believe when the people around you are in the moment just as much as you are.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

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

I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you.

I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with. And then my job is almost done, with a great script, obviously.

Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.