Doing that without asking them anything, isn't that a little too confident?
Lee: It's not difficult, just an easy equation, it's all there in the monitor. No matter if you're a director or not, it's all the same. If you do as planned while rehearsing, then that's it. We are animals who live by habits. If the director starts shooting several takes, then everybody stops working hard. We'll shoot another take anyway, why give all you have in one take? If you do like me, not shooting more than three takes per scene, then a hundred people on the set become nervous: "If I fail, this cut will never come back." Isn't that more convenient economically? If I do a take myself, then for other reasons we have to repeat because of the Make Up team, the Costume team or the DP team, then a hundred people all have to move again, and at the end everyone stops concentrating.
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