Grant Heslov

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'