Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

Don't make jokes about food.

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with you and wait outside your stage door when you're hot and on a roll, but no audience is ever truly friendly. Not for long. Bore 'em or disappoint 'em - even once - and they'll turn on you and tear you to pieces, regardless of who you are or might once have been.