I had professors in film school who taught us that “a director never sits” and “an AD never sits” and also “12 hour workdays are normal” and I’d like to say for the record that they were wrong and responsible for perpetuating a messed up culture. https://twitter.com/kaichoyce/status/1277978036239872000

The last time I AD’d something I insisted on seating (I had a knee injury) and guess what we still came in at least 30 min ahead of schedule every single day, even the Sunday we had broken sound gear on location & had to wait for someone to drive in their own personal stuff.

Miss me for all time with tales of “artistic genius” that are really about abusing workers.

The best, tightest set I’ve ever been on had an 8-months pregnant woman directing and a production manager who was carrying an infant in a sling.

The photos from that shoot are 100% “which grip rigged the best impromptu cradle today” & we TORE through the script pages.

(The baby loved the boom operator best so he wore her for long stretches)

Film is a physically demanding job but being alive is a physically demanding job. People find a way when they want to find a way.

Time for all this “The best movie directors are obviously the meanest ones” and “The best movies are the ones where everybody suffered the most” mythmaking to be buried under a parking garage in Burbank for all time.