A high-quality director is someone who avoids ego and agendas and fosters a supportive environment on set.

“we've all been on those sets where the director is like a bad dad you know what I mean like a bad dad a bad dad where who has an ego and agenda and I just feel Chris is a good one”

Directing is an inherently collaborative process where the director should vet their ideas with others.

“I really listen to other people in the room I try I I you know I used to have this misapprehension that directing was kind of a solo art form it's the kind of the myth of the atour and I find as I go along that it's really important to vet ideas with everybody else”

A director should create a sacred, safe space on set where actors do not have to endure the vulnerability of hearing their own voice played back to them.

“I do believe I want to create a Sacred Space where things are really occurring in real time and I actually think going back and watching in it and hearing it I think that's a vulnerable thing for an actor to hear especially there's a crew and they're hearing”

A director's true responsibility is to preside over and facilitate happy accidents during the filmmaking process.

“I think it was Copa who said that a director's real job is presiding over happy accidents and those look like those are the things like I was telling you that when I was watching the movie I was like oh my God I can see you in the pursuit of takes yes and there's that take where the hat falls off”

Directing is not just about leaning on others for approval, but taking personal responsibility for the final decisions on screen.

“to me what I found was it's not about who do you lean on tell you we got it it's about taking that responsibility yourself that's true and realizing this is going to come down to me I'm going to make those decisions about all these performances including mine”

The director is the person responsible for setting the tone and grounding the set.

“a director is the person who grounds the set and makes a decision about what the tone of the feeling of the shoot is”

Directing involves managing a creative equipoise between being open and maintaining control while not being precious about the material.

“well look we're both writers and we write for our own dirting process so I think there's a there's an equipoise between being open and not being precious on the day and and hearing the actors and and letting them completely off the leash if they' if they're if they're good actors”

A director must embody multiple roles including being a parental figure and an enemy to their actors while maintaining their professional composure.

“I think the people don't respect you if they look at you no of course and you don't want to show it can it can look a little bit vain but I mean you mean the power you mean the one that said yeah you have to be the father and the mother yes the father the mother the lover the brother don't want to s”