Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it’s possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes – clashes of ego.
But a writer’s contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that’s what being a director is.
I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
I make films about working class people.
I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
I’m not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They’ve got to take control; I can’t act it out.
If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.
It’s much easier to work with an unknown.
You’d be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it’s a dialog scene, if it’s a love scene, it doesn’t matter because you need to establish a situation.
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.