There are certain directors who will start talking to you about something, and suddenly you'll be ready to roll, and you'll realize it was very specific.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.
People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself.
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.
Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.
As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'