directors

Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and then being told that you have to ignore the emerging health and safety issues (This is illegal!) and not inform the workers that the system is known to be dangerous (This is illegal!). You have two options: To go to jail for illegal activities sometime in the future, or to lose your job now and have all your USA workplace rights removed for recognizing the illegal activities that your Directors want you to engage in. Welcome to the corporate America management team!

One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers__nyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

Filmmaking isn__ if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it__ about. It__ not just about getting a performance. It__ also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.