"For some directors, I'm the actor from hell."
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"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."
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"When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way."
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"I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director."
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"As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes."
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"A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it."
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"But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director."
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"I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director."
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"Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones."
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"I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director."
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"Love who and what you are and what you do."
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"I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen."
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"You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend somebody 50 million dollars you want you're money back. You don't care if they are oppressed. You just want you're money back."
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"As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make."
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"You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director."
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"I'd like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot - just a little copter shot. He really wanted this one helicopter shot, and Disney wouldn't give him the money. Just wouldn't give him the money. Every day, he was talking to the studio about this helicopter shot."
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"I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it."
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"If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director."
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"Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part."
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"A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive."
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