That's The Thing With Women's Movies -

If Some Magic Thing Happens, And Everybody Goes Completely Nuts, And Does Something We Never Thought Of, The Cameras Catch Everything. That Comes From Having Camera People Who Are Almost Like Actors And Writers Themselves.

I Love The Pictures Of Old Hollywood, Seeing The Directors Dressed In Suits And Ties. Even The Grips Would Be Wearing Ties. But The Biggest Thing Is When I Was A Kid, I Couldn't Wait To Be An Adult, And I Think What Happens With Most Guys Is That No One Wants To Be An Adult Anymore. So They're Dressing Like Kids.

If You're Not Connected Emotionally To A Story, Then You're Dead. You're As A Filmmaker Really Just Opening The Door For People To Lose Interest And Their Minds To Wander, For Them To Start Picking It Apart. That's What People Will Do, People Will Naturally Tear Stuff Apart Because They're Trapped With It, They Paid Money For It. And They Came Into It Wanting To Love It. So All You Can Really Do Is Piss Off The Audience. Unless You Do Things Right.

You Have To Know Everything. You Have To Know How To Light A Scene. You Have To Know All This Technical Stuff About Directing. No, You Don't. You Can Know As Much Or As Little As You Have To. Your Main Job Is To Get Great Performances And Tell The Story Correctly And Capture It Correctly. Then It's Just Basically Yours To Complicate Or Simplify As Much As You Want.

In My Years Of Acting, The One Thing I Was Never Able To Do Convincingly Was To Laugh On Camera. Fake-laugh.