It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

