If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.
To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.
You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.
Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
I've worked with more than 50 directors ,and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history and shooting with my own cameras. I've seen 50 different sets of mistakes and 50 different ways of achieving. You just leave the bad part out.
Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.
I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.
You either are a good director or you're not.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.