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Appreciating the director's job

Appreciating the director's job

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Appreciating the director's job

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- [Erik] I think being a director, it's about being a great leader and being able to kind of implement everyone's talent in the best way possible. I think sometimes people directors get caught up in this whole thing of just telling people what to do, and I don't believe in that at all. I almost try to look at everything as sort of a family base. So everybody in the family needs to bring something to the table. And when everybody clicks, that's when something great happens. - And I think those that are just sort of barking orders will probably find that they'll get a very sort of sanitized, clinical version of what they're trying to get, rather than if they speak to their crew as saying you know this is what I'm trying to achieve with that with this particular scene. - And I'm open to ideas from everywhere. I'm seeing myself more like a sieve, so I have the big overall objective, and I hear everybody's ideas and what comes through the sieve, we keep, and what doesn't, stays. - I talk…

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