unified way to create a consistent interpretation. Just as a military
commander who has charge of an army must have a clear-cut
operational plan, so the director, the commander of the film-making
group, must have a detailed operational plan. The fate of a film
depends largely on how this plan is worked out.
The directorial conception should be original and individual. As a
new plan enables a new house to be built, so a new directorial
conception enables the creation of a special film. No original work for
the cinema can be expected from a director who has no opinions of his
own and copies the ideas of others and conceives every production in a
stereotyped manner. True creation lies in the ability to find new
subjects and explore fresh spheres of presentation in a unique way.
The director must introduce new subjects in his own way.
Every artistic presentation is achieved through the creative
individuality of the artist. In literature and the arts there is no life
which is not depicted through the artist’s creative individuality.
When making a film the director must follow the script
scrupulously, but he must not do so blindly, word for word, or copy
it. A director who has no ideas of his own, other than those set out in
the script, cannot create anything of his own. Such a director cannot
even copy the literary presentation properly.
If the presentation set out in the script is to be improved and
modified in keeping with the characteristics of the film, the director
must have high creative ardour and burning enthusiasm. When the
director sets out on the road of inquiry with such spirit and zeal, he