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It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

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.

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.