One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.
That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
It is important to be financially savvy when you turn producer. As a director, you just need to have a good script in hand.
The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.
I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.