Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a big fan of Ron Howard of course, so it was fantastic to meet him.
My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.
Lars Von Trier is a genius. Every film he makes is so honest and powerful.
I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.
For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.