People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself.
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As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.
I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'
If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.
I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.
It's funny: as a director, there are movies you make because you're passionate about getting your vision across, and you know that you're vision is different than anybody else. In those cases, you take the plunge, and it works, or it doesn't. You make the stylistic choices based on how you feel about the material.
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.