Quotes

I believe very strongly that the best, most honest performances are when an actor feels free and safe. That's how you get a great performance. You can't if there is any tension. The emotion is going to be blocked. And that's something I've known from my days of studying acting. So my job is to create the kind of best, most conducive environment for the actor to play this character.

[on Euphoria (2019)] From the script, you get a sense of what the role requires. Even when you go up to audition, let's use the role of Cassie, you know the role requires a certain amount of nudity. Are you comfortable? If they're comfortable, they get the role, then the next layer is the intimacy coordinator. I think it's a SAG rule that if an actor then says, after getting cast, 'Actually, I don't want to do that,' we can't force them to do a scene.