I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.
The problem with being a writer/director: unless you're really disciplined, you start adding projects, and you have to make time to make them. Because you have to write them... no one else is writing them for me.
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
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.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
I don't really need a lot of help from a director.
I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you're a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, 'Don't do that!' when you make a mistake.
As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.
I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
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