You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.
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A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.
You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.
Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.