Angad Bedi Quotes

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating.

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.

I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.

Working with a good artiste is always a pleasure. If you get a reaction from your co-star, then you get the space to perform well.

However good an actor may be, he can't make a scene believable on his own, so it has to be a team work.

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

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

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.

I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.

Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.