There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.
Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar to figure out how you can get to the center and not lose yourself, but still be directed at the same time.
A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.
You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.
You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.
As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.
The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.