#jeff nichols
“The other film school you get as an actor is you’re on set with directors and watching them work. Every few months you move from one set to another, and you get to learn from different people, and I think that a lot of directors will never get that luxury of being able to hang out on another’s person set and learn, good or bad, the qualities of another director. It’s been a real blessing for me to have that information filling me up as I’ve sort of gotten closer and closer to wanting to direct a movie. It also broke down the elements of fear that were stopping me from doing it sooner.”
– Joel Edgerton; photographed observing the directorial techniques of directors Gavin O'Connor, Jeff Nichols, Nash Edgerton,Baz Luhrmann, and Kieran Darcy-Smith on the sets of “Jane Got a Gun,” “Loving,” “The Square,” “The Great Gatsby,” and “Wish You Were Here”
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“Joel wasn’t a foregone conclusion, in terms of financing…There were several people that had questions about that and I just kept saying, ‘Ah, look, he’s Richard. He’s gonna do an amazing job in this part. You just have to trust me.’“
– ‘Loving’ writer/director Jeff Nichols recalling how he had to fight studio heads and producers to cast Joel Edgerton as Richard Loving when they said they wanted a more well-known, 'bankable' movie star in the role
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“I’ve been on movies where I’m like, ‘I wish this thing was over. I wanna go home.’ I’ve been on movies where I’m like, ‘I’ve had a great time but I’m ready to go home.’ I’ve never really truly been in a movie where, as I watched the last handful of days count down, that I was fearful of the thing being finished and I didn’t wanna go home.“
– Joel Edgerton recalling the special feelings he had when shooting "Loving;” shown on set enjoying some laughs with fellow cast members, the crew, and director Jeff Nichols
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