21.   If every restaurant is a stage, more and more actors want a role.

22.   I think the key to directing may be simply to make your actors want to give you their very best effort.

23.   In return, the studio gets only a first look at the material the actor wants to produce.

24.   In return, the studios hope to develop a relationship with the stars and get a first look at any scripts the actors want to turn into films.

25.   Likewise, actors want two things from audiences.

26.   Numerous actors wanted to play Kaufman, including Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton and John Cusack.

27.   Stanley knows that decent actors want direction.

28.   So the director both actors wanted, Alan Pakula, and his agent, had leverage in negotiating his salary.

29.   Striking commercial actors want to be paid for each airing of a commercial on cable television, a residual system now used for network ads.

30.   The actors want pay scales and union-only shops.