It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

