I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.
When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.
I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.
When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
The time to act is now! Somebody go get the Director.
If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.
I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.
David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.
I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.
In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.
I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
