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Time management is a big part of the director's job.

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.