Fuck-Up #36
“The Assistant Director Is the Director’s Assistant”
What this crucial job really does and why you need a great one
“The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of thatperson is critical to the movie.”2
—John Frankenheimer
The Fuck-Up…
Allow me to eliminate a popular misconception: the assistant director is absolutely not the director’s assistant. It is a misleading title that in no way, shape, or form involves fetching the director’s coffee, answering the phone, picking up dry cleaning, or doing anything else commonly thought of as “assistant” work. Nevertheless, the assistant director is absolutely of indispensable assistance to the director.
It is a tremendous mistake for new filmmakers to underappreciate ...
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