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As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.