Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.
It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.
I feel genuinely fortunate to work with so many friends and talented people at ESPN, who make every day such fun.
To work for Shonda Rhimes is heaven. It's been amazing.
To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work.
We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.
I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects where I feel like I'm going to avoid those traps.
If you know what you want and you hire people that can do it, there's no reason it should be arduous and torturous. I wanted everyone to enjoy themselves on my set and want to be there, to take ownership of it and pitch ideas to me and know that this is their flick.
'Hollyoaks' really is such a great place to work, and there was nothing bad whatsoever about my time there. I loved my job, I loved everybody that I worked with, and I was blessed with great story lines.
The pleasing thing is being able to be in an environment where, even though I'm a rookie, everyone wants to help you out.
It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.
I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've got daddy issues. I just don't want to deal with those guys.
I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films.
The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.
