Actor Evaluation Quotes

I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Johnny Depp is probably the best actor.

I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.

I saw Cara Delevingne like five, six times. And I was never talking about the film [Valerian]. And then at the end, I say okay, let's do some test. She says yeah, yeah, good. So I took her in the room, and I test her for like six hours non-stop. Exercise, exercise, exercise for six hours. It was actually funny. And then I knew at the end of the six hours.

It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.

I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.

I've had a lot of experience auditioning people, and I can do it rather quickly even though sometimes I let them linger and give them time, but I kind of know after I see them do a couple of steps. I know.

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

Jerome Flynn is a great actor.

Sometimes I'll read an audition and I'll get a very strong first impression about who the person is, and I usually go with it.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'

Nick Cage is so underrated.