Katherine Waterston Quotes

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you're playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.

Working with a Hollywood unit was absolutely delightful. I felt like an actor. I was treated like one. I performed like one.

I have worked in films where we just put on the make-up and go in for a shoot without any discussions and even a talk with the director.

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.

I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

I had a fantastic time working on 'Twilight.' I loved our director Bill Condon. He was an absolute pleasure to work with.

With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.

I was briefly in the original version of 'Tombstone,' but I didn't make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.

I've done a lot of period drama before. A lot of my jobs have been that.

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

What I will say - one thing that is attractive about getting a real film made within the studio system is that studio systems, with their marketing and distribution, have real power.

I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.

But, as an actor, the role that I enjoyed, in terms of really understanding and appreciating this profession, was Anoop Singh's 'Qissa'.