I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.
Morgan FreemanIt's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
Morgan FreemanAnd that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
Morgan FreemanWhen I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.
Morgan Freeman