Dognitive Cissonance

No, the real reason writers want to direct is this: directing is easier. Sure there are long hours, a million stupid questions (who gives a fuck what color the floss is? It’s floss!!), difficult actresses, and Faye Dunaway. But your job is to make something that already exists work. That’s a whole lot easier than creating something out of nothing. I wish I knew who said it but supposedly a writer who was sick of always hearing about the “Capra Touch” set 120 blank pages in front of him and said, “Here. Put the Capra Touch on this.”

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Writing is lonely, directing is social. Writing is wishing, directing is making. Writing is losing your credit in arbitration, directing is taking credit for everything.

-- Ken Levin on Why Writers Direct

I have no where near the experience of Ken (or probably his talent), but I'm not sure f I entirely agree with this...

I think being a "serviceable" director ie not fucking up is easier than writing because you have so many people to catch you. I think being an amazing director is difficult, perhaps even more difficult than writing, if only because its so intangible what you do.

Anywho. Back to superman.