Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.