Kieran Culkin Quotes

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

All four of the actors in 'You're the Worst,' we all have strong theater backgrounds. We all play off of each other in that way that you would in theater. You kind of are up for anything out of the blue happening and getting it on film, you know? We're all just open to playing.

I'd like to be a director who gives my actors complete freedom while collaborating with them to find performances.

Because I do mostly comedy, I'm usually working with friends, and it's usually a ball.

Before I do episodes of 'The Good Wife,' I talk to the director and say, 'I'm trusting you to let me know if it's too much! I won't be offended.' So I put myself in their hands, and most of the time they let me do my thing, but sometimes they'll say, 'Let's try this.'

It was so much fun to work with the cast on 'School of Rock'. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

I don't like it when filmmakers say, 'Just come like this, sir.' I like to experiment with my makeup. I wish more filmmakers let me do that.

Directing Mr. Mohanlal was a delight. He's completely there and wanting to know what you want him to do. He's very keen on making sure the director's vision is realised.

Sukumar comes from a very different school of working style. He never shoots with set dialogues and scenes. Most of it is improvised on the spot. He'd tell me, 'Rakul, if this is your character, how would you behave? Show me.'

I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

Any changes that I made to my line, I asked if I could make them, which I do in every movie. So far everybody's been gracious enough to say yes. The only improvising I do is in the movies I do with Chris Guest, which is what we do.

There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.

Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.

When we go out there, we have fun, but we get to work, and I think we're at our best when we're having fun. Having fun is key.

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

I've been very fortunate to work with a lot of directors who understand that actors need to feel empowered in order to really do their job.

More than anything else, I love to act and leave the rest to my director.

I have a great band of great guys. We're a lot of fun.

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'

My mom usually does my self-tapes, and we've built a kind of shorthand with one another... Also, just having fun with it and not feeling restricted in your space and giving yourself enough space filming the shot to move around, things like that.

Our biggest thing in the locker room is to just have fun and stay loose.

I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.