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Rules for a Director from someone who knows (I found this recently and thought I should share it with you)

My Golden Rules: Danny Boyle Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire, T2 Trainspotting,   127 Hours and other great films by Danny Boyle as told to Ryan Stewart | Published October 29, 2010 1. A DIRECTOR MUST BE A PEOPLE PERSON. Ninety-five percent of your job is handling personnel. People who’ve never done it imagine that it’s some act, like painting a Picasso from a blank canvas, but it’s not like that. Directing is mostly about handling people’s egos, vulnerabilities and moods. It’s all about trying to bring everybody to a boil at the right moment. You’ve got to make sure everyone is in the same film. It sounds stupidly simple, like ‘Of course they’re in the same film!’ But you see films all the time where people are clearly not in the same film together. 2. HIRE TALENTED PEOPLE. • Your main job as a director is to hire talented people and get the space right for them to work in. I have a lot of respect for actors when they’re performing, and I expect people ...
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