Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
William H. MacyDirecting is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.
William H. MacyWhat actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.
William H. Macy