I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.
Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.
A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.
The filmmakers always have a great level of control.
When I'm on set, I know what I want.
I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.
I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.
If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
