Elia Kazan on Directors

The fact is that a director from the moment a phone call gets him out of bed in the morning—“Rain today. What scene do you want to shoot?”—until he escapes into the dark at the end of shooting to face, alone, the next days problems, is called upon to answer an unrelenting string of questions, to make decision after decision in one after another of the fields…That’s what a director is, the man with the answers.

- Elia Kazan