I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.
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.
Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.