R. Madhavan Quotes

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

I'm a director's actor and go by what they say.

I have realised I am a director's actor.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.

I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

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.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.