And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
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The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.
I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.
To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there.
Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.
You either are a good director or you're not.
You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.
I think a good director is a good listener.
As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.