I've Been a Director for a While and I'm a Big Fan of the Billy Wilder Staging and Blocking

Staging to me is one of the most important things I can contribute to to telling a story again. The best blocking Nichols ever did was his first movie who's afraid of Virginia Woolf and then you look at the blocking that Kazan did with Streetcar named Desire, those brilliant choices not made in collaboration with the actors they're all about working as a company. Shonda Rhimes: "I notice especially now with filmmakers not to get again too inside baseball but we've become increasingly reliant on on close-ups"