- Creative direction
- Deciding what a thing is before it exists, then keeping it that thing while forty people touch it.
- Directing
- On set, with actors and a camera. I like small crews and long lenses.
- Producing
- Budgets, boards, crew, locations. Making the impossible version of the idea into the version that shoots.
- Managing
- Artists and teams, day to day. Protecting people's time and getting them paid properly.
- Art direction
- Sets, props, wardrobe, type. The texture of the thing.
- Casting
- Finding faces that carry the idea without explaining it.