What we've got here is a failure to communicate

From the archives:

Director: What do you want in this scene?

Actor: I'd rather not say.

Director: Well, it's right there in the script.

Actor: Yeah, but it's my own interpretation of it.

Director. .... Ok... Yeah, but she literally starts this with an "I want".

Actor: And that's very interesting, but it doesn't relate to me personally.....

Director: Yeah but you have to be aware of your environment.

Actor: That's not my experience of it.

Director: ... And your experience of it is...?

Actor: That's personal.

Director: Ok fine. What did the writer write your character to declare that she wants?

Actor: [raised eyebrow and silence]

Director: It's right there. 

Actor: [more silence and a stare-down]

Director: Can you relate it with anything?

Actor: Oh sure. [silence]

Director. ....... Ok let's do it again.