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There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

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.