Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it. " Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.