There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.
One of the challenges of being a director is often you don't get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it's pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.
Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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.
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.