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As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.