The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.
Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
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.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.