Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.
In general, a film's delay is disheartening for actors, but it's harder on the director and the producer who have been on the project for longer than anyone else. While actors move on to other projects, the film's makers don't.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
The Hollywood model is to develop scripts for 10 years, sell them, transfer them, attach this actor, then attach a director. This isn't what I'm about. I'm much more of a creator and a doer.
I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
I was brought up playing games and still do ferociously. I once played Connect Four on set with Bill Nighy and Richard E. Grant for so long that the assistant director got cross.
As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.
I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.
Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.
Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.