At minimum what it may mean is that developers should rethink the moment-to-moment scale and camera position of a console title handheld port, even if from a computational perspective they can deliver an exact copy.
After "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), in which he played the egg-eating malcontented title character, he turned to directing, earning raves for his behind-the-camera work on "Rachel, Rachel" (1968), starring his wife.