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Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.