The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
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There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.
As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.
The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.
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.
I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.
Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.
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.
What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.
The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.