12 Directors Everyone Hates Working With (But Get Awesome Results)

Directors from hell who nevertheless get results...

Being a movie director is without question one of the most stressful and demanding jobs in the entertainment industry, given that potentially hundreds of millions of dollars depend on one person's ability to deliver a movie able to find an audience, while ensuring the gainful employment of hundreds if not thousands of cast and crew members. As such, perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that it's a profession that tends to attract passionate personalities, passionate to the point that actors often characterise them as difficult, a real pain to work with, or in some select cases, even flat-out psychopathic. With so much on the line, the weak-willed need not apply, but even so, these 12 directors have especially earned reputations for being directors who actors don't especially like working with, even though they tend to turn out satisfactory if not incredible results every time they step up to bat. Whether the captain of a billion-dollar movie enterprise or a low-key indie director, these 12 filmmakers have all been called out for their on-set behaviours in the past by numerous sources, but the end result of their movies at least in part appears to justify their dictatorial, anti-social attitudes. Because the list is focused on living directors, sadly Stanley Kubrick couldn't make the cut, and because it's about directors who make mainly good movies, neither could Michael Bay, despite being a notorious a**hat. Here are 12 movie directors everyone hates working with, even though they turn up great results most if not all of the time...
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