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What makes a great movie director?

Somebody who consistently puts out good movies. Stanley Kubrick for one.

Edit: Somebody who understands people and can put it on film
 
wow, not a single sarcastic/parody reply. you people have restored my faith in humanity 😛

the director i'm writing on is Majid Majidi (famous for "Children of Heaven". He also did my favorite movie, "Baran") To me what makes him great is the ability to make such a great movie with so little resources, many of the actors in his films are just regular people playing themselves.
 
One major thing makes all the difference, if you ask me.

Believe in the intelligence of your audience. It allows you to realize not every person alive is on anti-hyper medication, so you can move slowly and deliberately instead of the cut-cut-cut-cut-cut cinematography we see today, completely destroying any hope of creating suspense. It allows you to make movies that require some intelligent processing of the characters and scenes in front of you, creating a movie that'll last past just entertaining you for an hour and a half. You don't suspend belief or scare people by computer CG or clay models - the vampire movies of olden times, where all bites would take place just off-camera proved that. It was scary because it required the audience's imagination to kick into gear.
 
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