 The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job. |
| There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in. |
| The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work. |
| First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business. |
| The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. |
| If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors. |
| One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well. |
| Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors. |
| I really, really love directing films. |
| I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s. |
| I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work. |
| I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel. |
| Casting is 65 percent of directing. |
