It's sometimes hard to stay in awareness because you've got to create a good working situation with these people, and the tendency is to let the ego come marching in and think it can take care of everything, and make everybody comfortable. I always envision my ego as a marching soldier who says 'I've got everything under control' and tries to be like my Knight in Shining Armor, like this very heroic character, and ultimately it's really not. The best part of you for the team is your awareness, the part of you that can actually sit back and be patient. That's definitely true in filmmaking. Dancing and yoga, any physical activity, anything that is quieting and intimate and personal to you.
Dancing can be incredibly self-focused, but with a specific, focused intention.
There's something so meditative and completely egoless about that. Anything where you have to focus so intently on what the discipline calls for is a great way to keep yourself quiet and focused-in. It just makes your brain shut up. So at one point she went into the editing room unannounced, and she just put her arm around his shoulder to try to create connection. She spent a day with him, and all of a sudden, he was responding, and moving into a creative consciousness about how to edit this movie that would never have happened if he had been left to his own devices.