...some aren’t and prefer to be left alone.

As a director, though, dealing with creative people from the actors down through the production assistants who have their own future stories dancing around in their heads, interpersonal skills takes on new meaning… thus my new term; InterCreativePersonal Skills.

All creative people work differently and it’s up to me, as the director, to learn how each person on my crew works best. First and foremost, I’m talking about the actors but please note that this way of working starts with them to the DP and then follows through straight down to the interns.

Being what I consider an actor’s director, I know that actors work differently and use various techniques to get to where they need to be in any given scene. It’s up to me as the director to learn each individual actor’s preferred way of working almost as if I’m learning a new musical instrument with every actor that I work with. One suggestion will work with one actor while that same suggestion could make another actor very upset. It’s up to me to use my InterCreativePersonal skills, there’s that word again, to learn and understand how each actor works. EB