With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.
To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.