Director
Is it a job?
Is it?
It is.
So, what demands you to be a Director?
Let me tell you in the beginning, you are not being interviewed here. You feel you can be a Director… Right?
So what’s that you need to become a director?
The Screen world demands a few things. First, you need a strong artistic identity. This job, the director, needs new talents. Its the working environment for filmmakers. Film making is to study. The cinema industry itself has been with changes from the medieval craft to a broadly experienced, more versatile, better educated cinema person than any preceding generation, than before.
Who directs?
Directors come in all human shapes. Tall, short, fat,dark,introvert, extrovert, male, female, gay, straight. The common quality seem to be tenacity, vision, inventiveness in the face of obstacles, and a love for film-making!
Film-making, a multidisciplinary craft, requiring social skills as well as an intellect and character, its almost impossible to predict who will be truly capable. The best way is, you just do it!
Directing means bringing together people of different skills. It takes struggle, lone, to keep them going to hold your vision.
How will you turn a good director?
You need to know what you need from your cast and crew when filming. For this, as a director, you need self knowledge, humility, and toughness to be a director, the leader in film-making, the road to authorial control.