director

collective noun

person

is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain. Laurence Sterne

is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for fifty years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

is an eye, a mechanical eye, a machine that shows you a world the way only the director can see it. He approaches and pulls away from objects. He creeps under them. He moves alongside a running horse's mouth.

I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth...This is I, the machine, manoeuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations... Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

is tasked to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts, even to lose his way, for even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.

is a man with a big watch to watch if the actors do not clear off before 7 o'clock.

A director is a man with a big watch to watch if the actors do not clear off before 7 o'clock.

is one who imagines the imagination of others.

The real difference between directing and writing is that the director imagines the imagination of others.

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