Quote by Samantha Morton

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the per

Summary

This quote highlights the dilemma actors may face when working with certain directors. While initially chosen for their talent and ability, some directors may fail to provide guidance and direction to enhance the actor's performance. The quote expresses the frustration of actors who desire more active direction from their directors in order to fully realize the potential of their roles. It suggests that although trust is part of the casting process, it is equally important for directors to provide clear guidance and collaboration throughout the production.

Topics

Trust

By Samantha Morton

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how

But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.

Work Love Wonder Wonders Gifts

As a child grows in an environment in which his needs and lo

As a child grows in an environment in which his needs and longings for specialness and warm relatedness are consistently frustrated, he begins to turn away from his own needs in depression and shame. We can imagine the young child wondering, What is wrong with me that I get so little response from my mother? The two possible answers are I am too defective and unworthy of love, and there is something wrong with what I am asking for. In both cases, there is something wrong, either with the child himself or with his needs and desires. This experience of unimportance or wrongness is the common relational backdrop for vulnerability and susceptibility to shame.

Andrew P. Morrison, The Culture

Shame

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Food

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Emotions

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Amazing

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospe

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Intelligence

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoni

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

Dad

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the scho

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.

Thomas Friedman

Health

With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who m

With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Love People Romanticlove

And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn'

And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn't see it, because you'd never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do you think he hated you so much? It was like that form the second we met you. You thought it was amazing that you could see us, and it was, but what was amazing to me was that Jace

Cassandra Clare

Clary Fray Jace Wayland Isabelle Lightwood

Your fears, your critics, your heroes, your villains: They a

Your fears, your critics, your heroes, your villains: They are fictions you perceive as reality. Choose to see through them. Choose to let them go.

Reality Inspire Fears

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition that's how we bring peace.

Peace