Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story.
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 thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.
Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.