I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.
When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
You can't write something to please someone.
When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.