Directors who end up contenders during the awards season are faced with two kinds of torture: the first is getting their movie finished, and the other is sweating it out as ballots are cast and top ten lists are made. In a roundtable talk from The Hollywood Reporter, featuring Angelina Jolie ("Unbroken"), Christopher Nolan ("Interstellar"), Richard Linklater ("Boyhood"), Mike Leigh ("Mr. Turner"), Bennett Miller ("Foxcatcher") and Morten Tyldum ("The Imitation Game"), each director shares the moment occurring during production when they feel they've failed.
"I've never made a film where I didn't think, 'this is the one; this is the disaster,' " Leigh stated, a sentiment shared around the table. "Seeing the first edit is the worst. You see the assembly and you think: 'F—! I f—ed up this stuff,' " Tyldum concurs.
Even the seemingly unflappable Nolan reveals he won't even watch the first...
