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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.