“My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.” ShowsReadingLeftRoomsTvsDirectorsTv ShowsAuditionsCastingHallwaysCasting Directors Author:Danny Strong
“I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.” WritingReadingDirectorsScreenplays Author:Rupert Sanders
“I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.” IfsRealityReadingVisionComedyDramaDirectorsDramaticTonePerformers Author:Amy Seimetz
“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.” KnowsGivingKindGuyReadingLanguageProcessTermLinesVisionWonderfulDirectorsPerformancesPressureScriptsIntenseCommandCinemaVisualsComprehensiveLightingUnder PressureCameraman Author:Edward Norton
“What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts are wrong the director and the producers will guide me in the right direction. That's just kind of how I take on any role, be it a fantasy movie or not.” IfsThinkingKindCharacterStoriesReadingRolesFantasySeeingDirectorsInstinctScriptsGuidesProducersRight DirectionGuide Me Author:Josh Hutcherson
“I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingWellsShowsCertainReadingActorsEnergyLinesDirectorsCommunicateRussiaThings To DoInsultOfferingFlavorEasternDiscouraging Author:Jon Bernthal
“But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.” DifferentMatterReadingSoundCasesImagineDoorsHavensTvsDirectorsUnderstoodCinemaPlatesSpoonsScenery Author:Daniel Pennac
“Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.” PeopleIfsWantBookHappensLastsArtistReadingKnowingDirectorsPagesTensionCowardlySpoilers Author:Simon Pegg
“I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be.” KnowsWorldFeelsKindMayLittlesPersonsReadingStepsInfluenceDirectorsApproachExcuseProfessionAuthenticityErasStemAdviseNew EraSaturatedNew Approach Author:Jude Law
“When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing.” IfsEnoughPlayCharacterReadingAsksDirectorsBarometer Author:Gary Oldman
“I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.” WantHelpingWould BeReadingActorsLinesTerribleDirectorsDirect Author:Ruby Bentall
“Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.” PeopleReadingTermLevelsTvsDirectorsStudiosProducersMultipleCastingCasting Directors Author:Andre Holland
“As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.” IfsKnowsNeedsFeelsSometimesReadingActorsKnow HowClearDirectorsMouthsScriptsFixedComing OutFeels RightWriters Reading Author:Scott Foley
“I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack Gillespie, and he offered me the manager's job at Ibrox. I was flattered but declined with thanks. John Greig was a good friend of mine and I had no intention of being involved in ousting him.” JobsLyingReadingMorningMinesInvolvedBedDirectorsPaperIntentionPhonesThanksManagersGood FriendSaturdayRangersFlatteredSaturday Morning Author:Alex Ferguson
“You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.” MeanCountryTodayReadingGivenOne ThingPlanetsTerribleCostDirectorsPaperWeaponsMassDestructionPressesCriticsFolksStudiosReviewsSci FiKillersPapersDystopianDarlingWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionFluxGdpSmall Countries Author:David Edelstein
“I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.” MadeReadingDirectorsProducersBiographiesFabulous Author:Chris Matthews
“I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.” WellsPlayReadingDirectorsMeetingsScripts Author:Joel Kinnaman
“I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.” DoneHandsReadingMiddleDirectorsPaperAuditionsCastingCasting Directors Author:Kevin Hart