He continues, "Phillip taught me a lot about shooting film and understanding what a motion picture is, and how to tell a story cinematically, and he's excited about every shot, and about every take, and that's rare. It's really wonderful to see, and it inspires me."

Jolie says, "It takes a certain kind of a man to appreciate and really understand the type of woman Amelia is and all the different sides of her. And Phillip knows and identifies with her soft side, and he gets her when she's strong. He knows it's complicated and he's just as baffled by her and just as open to whatever comes out of me-it might be just what's right for her so we'd try 100 things because she's not an easy person to figure out."

"Phillip is a really cool director, but he's really big," says Latifah. "He's a big guy with a big voice and a big brain," she laughs. "A lot of people just work on the acting, or the shots, but he has a bigger picture, rather, the entire picture in mind, and covers all the bases."

Noyce's attitude about filmmaking is that the performance comes first. He says, "Everything else follows the performance. So when you're making that your number one aim, that's the cake and the cinematic flourishes become the icing on the cake."

But cinematic flourishes were a tremendous consideration in making The Bone Collector.

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