I'm VERY sensitive, I'm sure a lot of you are as well, but this director was a dictator, verbally abusive to his crew. I took a job on his shoot on the crew, had a very bad gut feeling about the shoot, but needed the money so I worked on it anyway.

He was a dictator, his set was chaos, he hasn't matured beyond a 13 year-old boy, and was flat out verbally abusive to me and probably others.

I was upset and an actor and another crew member nodded at me like it was nothing, said they have come across many verbally abusive/dictator type film directors, and that you have to be objective, do your job, that it goes along with the industry, and that you just seek out the other legitimate and professional rew members on the shoot. This was a low budget shoot and the script wasn't even worth blinking an eye lash for, but what if you're working on a major network shoot and this happens? I guess that would be different.

Next time this happens I'm going to leave. I can't tolerate verbal abuse, I'm too sensitive and my emotions are very easily broken. Or do you think you need to compartmentalize this, and finish the project, since you agreed to the shoot, and you wouldn't want to jeopardize your name and reputation as a quitter?

well im sure this must be difficult for you because of your directors cutting edge attitude. im the same way as far as sensitivity goes, so i understand fully.

but even when it is a low budget film, you have to remember to take a breather and remind your self that your a better person than to say something. think of it as practice. because you will come across directers that are the same way and that are not low budget, and you will NOT want to speak your mind on his/her attitude then.


as far as dealing with it- make sure as he is barking orders and setting chaos- to not let him know it bothers you, react with a smile in if you can, and show him what you git on set!!

remember- they dont call it a cut throat buisness for nothing!