Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
Have a go. Anybody can do it.
A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.
If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.