Inexperienced directors often mistakenly defer to other crew members' opinions instead of maintaining their own creative confidence and vision for the project.

“I think maybe if I had any early mistakes would have been maybe just um not having enough confidence about where I thought, you know, like maybe listening to people who said, "Well, I think we should do it this way." And I might have deferred a little too much early on because, oh, well, they're her”