If you could have dinner with another director, living or dead, who would it be? I would like to talk to Mike Nichols. I would've loved to have met him. I saw an interview with him, it was two weeks before I was going to shoot, and he said he approaches directing the way he approaches acting, which is he prepares, prepares, prepares. And he shows up on the first day and he throws it all away. And he gave me the courage to embrace that.