Directors: A Roundtable Discussion

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An overall nice little roundtable interview with five of last year's high-profile-helmers here.

"The fact is, what do directors do? You don't just take the script that somebody gives you and illustrate it. I mean, I don't do that. The movie that you see is not the movie that I received on the page."


-- Writer/Director Julian Schnabel

"Look, when you're a writer, credit just flees from you like you can't believe. It's like you're anti-credit. It's just so hard to hang onto anything. When you become a director, you become highly absorbent, magnetic to credit. You get credit for everything: You get credit for the DP; you get credit for the actors. It is what it is."


-- Writer/Director Tony Gilroy

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Film is a director's medium in the end (in some ways unfairly-so as they often get credit for everything by the media and general public, but oh well)...but without us writers actually giving them a story to jump from, what would they be doing then?