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I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene. I like a director that encourages me to be playful.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.

I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.