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.
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You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
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.
When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.
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.
Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.
When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.
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