You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.
Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.
I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.
I've had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it's about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make sure we see eye-to-eye as creative individuals. If [good] communication isn't present, you can lose something and end up very unhappy.
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.
The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.
And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.
Rip Torn had, like, lessons in everything he said, and one of them was, "I know that an actor can undermine anything a director tells him to do by making fun of it. " And he thought that that's what I did.
The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.
As a director, I only know how to do it one way, is to pour my heart and soul into everything.
Larry Kasdan is a great director.
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.