Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.
Realistically, it's the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they're really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.
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.
It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.