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You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I had no plans to be a director.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.