I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'
I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.
I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.
The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately much more interested.
To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there. You have to trust the director and react to nothing.
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
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.
