I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.
I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.
I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.
As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.
When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
