For to have faith, is to have wings" Peter Pan
You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.
I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours. "
When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.
Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
I've always been quite careful about what I wanted to do. I've just never wanted to revisit old ground or do something that's easy. I want to do something that I would look at and go, "I don't know what to do!" The most exciting thing is when you're a bit scared, so I'm looking to find something that's really terrifying.
Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.