I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.
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Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.
I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.
Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.
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