Roger Michell(1956-2021)

Born in South Africa, raised in Syria and Czechoslovakia. Currently resides in England.

Your job as a director is to serve the story. I don't think it's the job of a director in any medium to wave at the audience and say, hey, don't forget about me, I did an important thing here as well! You should make the play shine and make the actors shine. You should be invisible.