The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.
Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.
I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.