One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.