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As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

Personally, I've always had to face casting directors or producers saying, 'You're right for the part, but nahh, you're not quite what we're looking for.'

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.