Tracy Letts

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The Big Picture · The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’ · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

Because a lot of times you're dealing with guys, men and women who have come up through the business thinking purely visually and technically about how to get their pictures on the screen.

But they don't necessarily know how to communicate their ideas to an actor.

Some are better than others.

No.

Yeah.

Well, that's a good question in that I suppose you could have a bad director with a really good script.

I don't know that I've seen that.

I don't know that I've

I don't know that I could point to a movie where I thought, well, that director was terrible, but that movie turned out all right.

I don't know that I have a lot of those experiences.

Yeah.

I think the director is the, is the author of the, I believe in the O'Toole theory.

And I, uh,

believe in the theory.

I believe that the director is responsible for the film, ultimately.

Okay.

And some of these failures that we'll talk about, you guys talked about some on your BOMBS podcast.

I mean, the director has to answer for those.

Mm-hmm.

I think ultimately that a movie like Borman and the Devil, as well as The Ghosts of Peter Sellers, this is a movie we can talk about in terms of these other documentaries.

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