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I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

I really, really love directing films.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.