If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
I'm used to working with the director and producer, and that's my relationship. It's very simple.
Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.