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Every director should take an acting class.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

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

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

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.

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

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.