Some of the leading production designers in the industry discuss their craft with BAFTA on what their role is and how it facilitates the director.
“I think of myself as the hand of the director. My real job is to understand how the director reads the script, and what he/she sees and wants to visually accomplish.”
These production designers include: David Gropman (Life of Pi, Fences, Doubt), Barbara Munch-Cameron (The Matrix Revolutions, Creed II, Behind the Candelabra), and John Stevenson (Burton and Taylor, My Summer of Love, The Good Liar). All of whom offer share wisdom on the relationship with the director.