We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.
As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.