well you know actors want to work with
david and that's
um a gift for his producers because you
can get actors to work with him
um at a special rate you know they'll
work
in the economy of the film so if you're
making a 10 million dollar movie
you can't make the act to 10 million
dollars you can only have
the right proportion of what the actor
should get out of the movie
like what the director and the producer
and everybody gets more is the right
proportion
as opposed to a film that's being made
with tom cruise in it when he gets half
the film
and then the film's too made with the
other half so you know it's a very
different economy when you work with on
david because the money goes in the
movie
and the actors know that therefore you
get a special sort of actor wants to
work with david
but most actors want to work with him
because they would like that notch on
their gun belt
i did a film with david cronenberg
secondly actors love him because to be
able to
i mean he gives the actions what they
need and what they want
he gives them enough not too much he he
helps them
but lets him be free he loves them
but he doesn't want to possess them he's
very very good with actors
and the actors really respect him and
uh on on i don't think i've ever had a
better experience than on dangerous
method than when the actors you know
i was living in a hotel with the actors
david living in an apartment
they were completely sated they didn't
need him at night you know they were
like sated by him
doing they were completely satisfied and
sated with what he gave them
and what uh
the stimulation the intellectual side of
what their path should be
he's worked it out for them exactly what
they should do
and he's so confident
i think he's so confident as a director
and as what he's shot and what he's
going to be having eventually
in the film when he's put it together
with the music and the sound and
how he's going to do it that it's very
nice for an actor
to have a ring master who they know who
knows you know
because often they have somebody they
don't know anything you know and so
they love working and they hear the
jungle drums work out the acting
profession
you know used to make a film with david
cronenberg because he knows something we
don't know
and actors love working with a director
who knows something that they don't know
and it makes them better and
that was you know the performances i
think endangered the method will walk
absolutely peerless
david obviously takes a chance when he's
casting like all directors do but he
he follows his instincts you know
obviously has to take into account
even though his movies are i've never
been
you know big budget movies there's still
a requirement
you know anybody who works in
independent movies knows that even the
smallest movie
there's pressure to cast at least one or
two characters that are
if not mainstream actors actors that are
known to movie audiences just to ensure
the financing and
the possibility that people will
actually go to the movie theater and see
it
sighted unseen or not knowing much about
the story maybe
and obviously he has to take that into
account but he always whether it's
casting karen knightley or michael
fassbender
or you know working again with me he
takes into account
he has to pressures of the producers
well are they
what's their box office potential as
actors but he's always looking to cast
the movie right
and as far as people getting along he he
guesses at it that's part of
the equation i think when he's casting
how would she
work with him or how would these two
guys get along and
you know he takes a chance it's a gut
instinct he has when he's casting and in
the case of
you know michael fassbender myself
playing jung and freud
you know it worked and we got along and
you know michael has a different
approach than mine
i'm sure but but he does have a good
sense of humor
and he does work hard in his particular
way
at being ready you know showing up i
think that's what david
expects of people that they'll show up
and i mean it's not that complicated
really in terms of
working with him
or what i in particular
have in common with with david you know
as actor director collaborating
it really comes down to simply
you know the expectation that we're both
going to show up well prepared
and ready to pay attention and see what
we can
get out of the day's work you know
another thing that's really good about
him
is that not only does he
inspire an actor to do
his or her best work and to be
honest and and efficient and portraying
a character but he also
working with him is a healthy reminder
that that telling stories
in the movies can and maybe should be
fun every single day of the shoot no
matter how
complicated or disturbing
any scripted scene might be you know why
not
do you know what i mean and uh that does
make it seem a lot easier
it's never really easy but but it feels
easier
uh you know he inspires confidence and
and a certain you know degree of
playfulness you know i think
i mean i think if i had to describe
and if if i had to describe in a phrase
what david's
working method is or what what he's
about as a director
and as a person i would say that it's
he's about uh his work and and his
his way of being as a man is is about
the the joy
of acquiring knowledge you know
i mean he doesn't just push himself to
to to make a new kind of movie each time
just because
well i have to do something different no
he wants to because he's always wanting
to learn something else
that's a great quality for a person to
have generally but for a director it's
wonderful