12/31/05: Fundamental questions

Here's my latest try at formulating three basic questions to ask everyone I interview:

1) In directing your current project, what is the relationship between "story" and "text" ("text" in the most specific sense: the words that the actors speak), and how does that understanding shape choices you make with actors?

2) What would you never do, and why not? That is: what for you is the line between what is acceptable in the present situation and what is unacceptable, and what determines where you draw that line? Would you draw the line differently in a different situation?

3) Is there anything that constrains you from what you would most like to do with your directing?


And here's a fourth question:

4) Are these questions of interest? What is a question you would most like to ask if you were in my situation?