Pastoral Resources

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that.

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theater actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.

I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.