Rooney Mara Quotes

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

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

I am doing an interesting film called 'Club 60' where I share the screen with many superb actors like Satish Shah, Farooque Shaikh, Tinu Anand, and some more. It's one film I am looking forward to as it has been made very differently.

Noel Black, who directed 'Pretty Poison,' got me to play a film-making student in 'Cover Me Babe.' At least it wasn't another tomboy.

I have realised I am a director's actor.

No actor can give his best performance without the help of the director.

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.