It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
“Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.”
“You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.”