Sir Peter Hall talking with Jasper Rees in the Guardian, on, among other things, the nature of the director-animal:
“[…]They’re much more difficult than writers or actors to deal with. They’re the cat who walks alone.
I’ve worked with practically all the great directors, alphabetically, from Bergman to Zeffirelli. It’s wonderful to be involved in the mystery of other directors’ work, because they’re all different.
But most will know within the first three or four days whether it’s going to work. The interesting thing is when it’s wrong they have to go on and they can’t tell anybody it’s wrong.”
Dara Weinberg 