Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.
Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.
I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.
The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.
Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
