Demian Bichir Quotes

When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

I love Krishna Vamsi very much as a director, and after working with him, I also started to like him personally.

As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.

Now Tarantino is making DJANGO UNCHAINED. Everybody is telling me I am in the movie but I've not been asked by Tarantino officially. Not yet. There were many, many other Django films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one Django.

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing.

Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked me what another filmmaker is like. So, there's probably nobody better placed to make all the comparisons and to pick up stuff than an actor.

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.

I love working with actors. I do.

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would love to work with. I don't view any directors or actors above regular people, so I'm just happy to work with anyone, as long as they have talent.

When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.