“He agreed with me. What I didn’t tell him was that I just couldn’t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I’d had enough of the mumbo-jumbo. I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) to me.”

Alec Guinness On George Lucas

“Lubitsch's method of direction was perfect for me. He would act out the whole scene — and then he'd say, 'Now let's see how you'd do it.'”
Jack Benny

“Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.”
Victoria Abril

“If a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.”
Tobin Bell

“He's the apple of our eye. He's a fine actor, but he's starting to turn down acting work because he's about to become a director.”

Julian Glover