And in a strange kind of way, because he's more aware of actors and their problems, in some ways he's easier to work with than a director who just says, tell the actors just to shut up and act. He's more sympathetic towards them. I suppose it's all financial. I think that a film unit is one of the most efficient industrial processes I've ever seen. It starts on the basis that first of all it's expensive to develop scripts and set something up.
Actors are expensive to employ.
Studios are expensive, sets are expensive. So therefore it does actually make sense to have a large number of people all working together to make the most efficient use of those very expensive resources. I have, working with me, I have a team of four full time other assistant directors. Therefore at the end of the day we don't have any delays here in front of the camera because I have those people to back me up. All the departments, it's the same thing, if you have four make-up people, as opposed to two, your actors don't have to come in so early, therefore they're not as tired when they get on the set, and therefore they give a better performance.