A Chat with Jack Lemmon - Part 2
funny.
WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF A GREAT DIRECTOR?
To keep it simple. I think after all these years and the many directors, good and bad and great, that I've been lucky to work with (you can learn from bad ones too. You learn from a bad director what's good about a good director) that the overall thing is, that they have an innate intelligence.
A great director is foremost, intelligent. Above all, I think, given that fact that he has the talent and the perception, he must know his material... Actually, there are two factors. He also has to have enormous faith in himself. Come hell or high water. If the dam breaks, he'll stand there. He will not drown. He believes, in his film. He knows how. He can see how. As an actor, one must have faith in the director. I had that with Billy..."
* Next week (final) Jack Lemmon talks about his movie Save the Tiger and director Costa-Gavras.
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