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As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

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.

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

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.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

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.