Adam Driver Quotes

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.

I'm very Canadian. I want everyone to love me, and I just get nervous.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead.

There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would love to work with. I don't view any directors or actors above regular people, so I'm just happy to work with anyone, as long as they have talent.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.