When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

