THE WRITER CREATES REALITY, THE CINEMATOGRAPHER CAPTURES REALITY, THE DIRECTOR COMMUNICATES with you this REALITY and makes you feel it and understand it.
I would share my experience of what I felt being a film director. It was one of the most exciting, mind blowing experiences which I had in my life. Maybe only the birth of Boris was more powerful and overwhelming. The emotions and feelings which I had during those three weeks of shooting were amazing. The combination of so many different and complex situations and decisions to be made, the race against the clock and with the time, plus so many other factors makes you incredibly concentrated and focused on the present moment. I was going in a kind of meditative state, in which I was becoming an observer of the reality, or better said of the illusion which pretended to be the reality. What fascinated me was that through all of these days I had to project the entire film and its process of making ahead in my mind. I had to assembly the puzzle, detail by detail but always having in mind the bigger pictures, and the entire picture.
Working as a film director I found out is a very dynamic,and multidisciplinary work. It requires soft skills, it requires organization skills, technical skills and of course passion, self awareness and self belief and really big balls. I would say, that most of everything it required from me to be a leader, because shooting a film I felt was ass if I was going for a battle, every day I had to go super motivated and passionate and trying to motivate and inspire the rest of the crew and cast to believe in me, in the story's idea and its purpose. I had the greatest privilege and responsibility to work with people who believed in me and followed me and the idea. Who were going in fire and rain in order to make this film happen. I got a really fantastic, very personal and intimate project as a debut feature film. The story itself was inspiring to me from the very beginning, the setting, the place, but most of all the people who were working on the film. I think a great director is this one who can gather around her or him really special talents, special people, and to create a safe environment, a magical reality during the shootings and in behind the scenes too. The director has to be able to provide security and friendliness for the talents and the crew. This I believe is extremely correct for projects like NoOne which are raw, honest and intimate cinema.
The director has to see and smell the false and immediately be able not only to recognize it, but also to correct when needed. Of course these qualities always will be challenged by factors and situations which sometimes are over the director's capacity and ability at the present moment. Here comes another great quality which I felt a film director has to have. It is about the compromises. Every project would bring with itself questions which will put a film director in front of important dilemmas. Thus, it is very crucial for a film director to choose the right compromises.
For example I had to choose whether to stop filming and waiting for somebody to bring us a computer for reviewing the footage and a video monitor for the camera, or to continue to shoot trusting the camera operators and the cast and my instincts, but still to have the chance to finish the film and to shoot all of the scenes.
I have worked more than thirty jobs in my entire life, I have been playing more than ten sports and been doing so many activities in my life, but on top of all of them stands the mystic and magnificent role of the film director.
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