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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.

Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

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 enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.