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The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.