And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.
But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.
I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.
I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
I really, really love directing films.
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.
One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.
The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.
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.
