"My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one."

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Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

— J. J. Abrams