Julia Stiles

“What’s funny is that I did everything as a director that I swore I would never do to my actors.”

- H. Alan Scott

NOW THAT JULIA STILES HAS DIRECTED HER first feature film, Wish You Were Here, she sees directors in a whole new light. “I almost wanted to call some directors that I had worked with and be like, ‘I’m so sorry that I was annoyed with you when you told me to do that thing.’” Best known for acting, Stiles knew she needed to adapt this novel for film when she read it. “The book broke my heart but also made me laugh. It felt like it had such a good spirit to it, and I’m a romantic at heart.” The film follows a young woman swept up in a new romance only to learn her partner is terminally ill. While she says she ran “in the other direction” of making the film too saccharine, she didn’t let a cynical voice fully take over. “Th