My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.
As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.
It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.
Every actor wants to direct.
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.
Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.