I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.
There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.
As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.