I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

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.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

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.