I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
For me, it's not like I am going to look at the money the director's film has made before their film... For me, it is about working with the director whose work I have admired.
A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.
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 think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.