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I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.