I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.
There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.
I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.
If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.
I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.
Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.
I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.
You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
