6 Top Directors on Fighting With Studios, Firing Actors and Quitting Film School; Roundtable

Stage 32 have pointed out to me this great Directors Roundtable from the Hollywood Reporter, some candid comments from 6 directors on directing, self belief, firing actors and growing up. Steve McQueen ‘Twelve Years a Slave’, Paul Greengrass, ‘Captain Phillips’  David O. Russell ‘American Hustle’, Ben Stiller, Alfonso Cuaron ;’Gravity’ and Lee Daniels ‘The Butler’ on explaining long days on set to their kids, getting notes from executives and what made them go behind the camera for the first time.

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I have now written 31500 words of my novel, I am determined to get the 50k words mark by Nov 30th and obviously finish this full draft before putting it down) Yeah to me 😉