He sought control of the script, the editing, the lighting, the music, as well as the direction, as he had in his early shoestring movies.

ECONOMIST: Stanley Kubrick

He demanded total immersion both of his actors and of himself, and complete control of both the shoot and the script.

ECONOMIST: Ingmar Bergman

He likens it to the way a Hollywood film might be very different from the original script - and that Shakespeare was unusual in getting control of the production process.

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