I think one of the director's most important jobs after casting itself is to trust the actors. As long as you cast the right actors in the first place, and on this occasion I really think we have, once you've got them there, [you should] trust them and listen to them and take on board their ideas and let them have their input. [That] is the most important thing for a director to do. The director isn't, in my opinion, someone who stands there and says 'Do it like this, do it like that, read this line exactly like this.' It's not like that at all.

Of course, there are times when it's your job to filter the ideas and decide what's a good idea and what's perhaps not such a good idea, but it's more a case of steering the ship along than of cracking the whip and telling everyone exactly what to do. You're more like a focal point to the whole thing,

Once you've got those actors together and cast them in the right parts, from then on to actually co-operate and trust and work on an equal basis with the actors, that's what I'd say a good director does.