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I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.