There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.
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.
When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they do all the time. So you just have to figure out how to get through it, and then how the director finally puts it together, and then see what the audience takes from it. That's the most important thing to me.
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.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.