Russell Crowe

You can have A-lister number one, A-lister number two, A-lister director, great subject matter.

Nobody goes and sees it.

It's sort of a type of alchemy.

And I came out of an independent film world.

And then suddenly a couple of those independent films got successful and it led me to another place.

But I still like to work in an independent world because if one hits, that's the one that's going to be fun and important or whatever if it comes out of nowhere.

Studio films, it's great if it's the right situation.

I'm not saying that there's a negative in doing that.

If you know what I've done,

All sorts of big studio budget films.

I'm Superman's dad in DC.

I'm Zeus, the god of gods in Disney Marvel.

And I'm Kraven, the hunter's Russian father in...

in Sony Marvel so it's sort of like you know it's the experience of doing those films is the same for me as other things I go to work I have a particular character thing in mind this is what I'm trying to do the thing about my job man

is in reality most film directors you work with are genius.

They're genius people.

You know, male film or whatever.

The person that has worked to the point of getting to helm a feature film where you have to cover all of the aspects, you know, from the production design to the sound to how you're shooting or what lenses you're using.

The people that you're working with, where you shoot it.

All of those responsibilities come on the film director.