Blog: The Sly Oyster

The LA Times sits down for a roundtable discussion with directors David Fincher, Ethan Coen, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper, Darren Aronofsky, and Lisa Cholodenko.  Three of these directors - Fincher, Coen and Aronofsky - are my favorite working directors. Aronofsky: I think it's a myth that you [get] exactly what you have in mind. You're in three dimensions with weather, atmosphere, technology that has limitations, time that has limitations. And you don't want to control an actor to that extent because it'll just suck the life out [...]