I carried a beeper in LA for a film shooting in New York, so that Barbet could ask me when a line could be changed or whether an actor should stand or sit down in a scene. Without that voiceover the movie's totally conventional. Had we been under the control of a studio they'd have told us to change it. But the detail that preview audiences disliked was what made the film ultimately work. It's horrendous when you have nine people working on a script.
Art comes out of a singularity of vision that reflects an unconscious drive of the writer.
When it works the director shares and understands that vision and realises it. When you've got writers coming in serially they can't possibly understand it. They've got different styles, needs, desires, interests. Kazan picks what may be a bad example. Faulkner did rewrite Hemingway.