Section Four

Being a Director

Overview

What does it mean to be a director? To be a director, you need a passion for storytelling and an ability to be a leader. You need to have a rich aesthetic sense so that you can judge what is good from what is bad. It means having good taste.

To be a director, you need to able to handle the rigorous demands of the job both mentally and physically.

Finally, and most fundamentally, you need someone to give you a job: to hire you to direct!