The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. Itโs to survive as yourself, undiminished.
I was always a self-conscious person.
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.