What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. … - Grant Heslov

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Grant Heslov

What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.

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I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

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Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.

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We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo.

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The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

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I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

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