I Want People To Leave

A Lot Of Film Directors Are Quite Scared Of Actors. They Are A Bit Of A Nightmare Sometimes, But I Like Them. It Looks Like Cunning, But You Try To Get Extra Things From Them All The Time, By Stealth, By Making Them Feel Confident, So They Trust You And You Can Push A Bit.

There's Lots Of Things That Can Be Solved With Cash. And There's Occasional Things That Can't Be Solved With Cash, Which Become A Bureaucratic Nightmare For Some Reason, And There's No Distinction Between The Two. There's No Way Of Reading A Situation And Saying, "yes, That'll Be A Bureaucratic Nightmare, But That One We'll Be Able To Buy Off." It Just Depends On The Day, Apparently.

Basically, Actors Arrive In A Bubble. They Have A Little Sealed Bubble Around Them And It's Basically [comprised Of] Their Agents, Their Last Film, Their Next Film, Their Press Agent, And Their Per Diems - All These Things, They Cocoon Themselves With And You Have To Puncture That Bubble On Each Of Them To Make Them Be In Your Film.

Normally, I'm A Very Controlling Director. Directors Are Controlling. It's Part Of The Job, But There's Various Degrees Of It And The Constructs I Normally Work On Are Very Controlling Constructs.

I Find My Own Pain And Others' Difficult To Tolerate, So I Always Want To Try To Shift Things So They'll Be Better. But In Doing That, If I Am Coming From A Place Of Ego, I Often Cause Harm. So It's A Struggle For Me To Set My Ego Outside And Find A Softer And More Compassionate Way Of Approaching Things.