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I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

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.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.