I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.