Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.
Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.