It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.
My husband is very supportive - he wants me to work but understands I also want to be with the kids.
I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.
Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
Haseeb Hassan is a fantastic director. He really understands characters and their relationships. He always gives sound advice and direction.
Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.
I hope that in another way we can move the need to say, instead of being a Black director, or a woman director, or a French director that I'm just a director.
Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
I've always laughed at the term "female director" or even "black director." A director's a director.
Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.
Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top of the United States. He's clawed his way out of 330 million people. OK. He didn't do that because he was dumb, or lucky, or something like that. He understands power. And he understands how to take it. And he understands how to keep it.
I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.