Ultimately, A More Experienced Director Realizes That

I Think What All Actors Share Is That, Somewhere Down In Your Solar Plexus, There's This Fear That You're Not Going To Be Able To Come Up With The Goods, That This Is The One Movie Where You're Going To Look Like A Fool, And They Should Have Cast Someone Else. And You Feel Ugly, And You've Got Three Chins, And You've Gained Too Much Weight, And You're Losing Your Hair, And There Are So Many Better Actors Who Could Do This. But If You've Got Chops, What You Realize Is That Everybody Feels That Way, So Just Show Up And Do The Job.

It's Hard On An Actor When You Have To Do A Scene 45 Times And You Know Damn Well That Three Of The Angles A Director Is Shooting Will Never Make It Into The Movie.

Writers Love To Write Those Idiotic, Long Stage Directions, And Some Of Them Worse Than Others. They Have Nothing To Do With The Movie. They're Just Jerking Around.

Ultimately, A More Experienced Director Realizes That You've Got To Stop Sometime And Just Move On. They're Braver About That.

To A Certain Extent. I'm A Fan Of Rehearsal On The Day [of The Shoot], More Than Getting Together A Week Beforehand.