The best surprise of all about directing is working with the actors. We had some inexperienced actors. It requires a lot more relaxing them. . . Young actors or inexperienced actors are just more insecure and maybe don't trust themselves as much. It's about casting, you cast the right people, you hire the right people, and you hope that they encourage them to do their job well, I mean, you're screwed if you miscast.
Some characters change.
And she's somebody I really cared about by the end of the movie. So she deepened her role a lot. So she was very smart. Those are things that the actors bring you as gifts that if it were up to me, it would have been a lesser film. When we tell a story to anybody, we have a much more plastic sense of storytelling.