Sondra Locke Quotes

Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

I share a very good rapport with Shah Rukh, so I was at ease working with him, and Imtiaz is a dream director for any actor.

There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same language.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing.

Tell me one director who will go on record to say that I don't get along with them? I get along famously with all my directors because I am what I am today because of them.

There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship.

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.

I don't like to work with people I don't have any connection with.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

You just want someone that you're going to get on with. That is genuinely the first priority. Even before how good they are, you want someone that you know you're going to have a laugh with and that the journey is going to be OK between the two of you.