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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

Actor, Actors, Film, Fun, Want

"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Actor, Nerves

"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Actor, Actors, Artist, Artists, Writers

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

Actor, Want

"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

Actor, Indecision, Will

"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Actor, Actors

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

Richard Donner, American Director

Actor, Trying

"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

Jena Malone, American Actress

Actor, Being, Listening

"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

Donna Mills, American Actress

Actor, Actors, Attention

"I'm a rapper trying to be an actor."

Method Man, American Musician

Actor, Trying

Explore more quotes by John Thaw

"There is no more final end than death."

Death

"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide."

Eye

"I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester."

Job

"I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him."

End

"We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong."

Work

"Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character."

Character

"In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on."

Murder

"I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him."

Being

"I'm not an instinctive actor."

Actor