How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
I keep working with fairly inexperienced directors. You know, if you have a good crew, a good cameraman, you know, I know what I'm doing. If the actors know what they're doing, we can all pull together, and it works.
There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.
A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.
You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.
As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.
As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.