When I started out I was a failed actor.
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.