Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Which makes sense. Unless there is a director that has a really good eye for it (like Whedon or the Russos) let the hired director direct the scenes that matter, let them mold and shape the film by injecting the culture and dialog that they were hired to do, and let some 2nd team work on the fast stuff.
Makes sense in the context of a production model like Marvel's where the directors are largely slaves to the plans of the producers. I'm not saying this is a necessarily bad thing (it has given us some great movies) but I think it's a bit weird to approach auteur directors like Martel and tell them they are not going to direct the entirety of their own movie. I'm sure the sudden departure of names like Joss Whedon or Edgar Wright had a lot to do with this.

I mean, for a compromised filmmaker who thinks of what he does as art, I can see how it's borderline offensive. Every scene of a film they made is supposed to be a "scene that matters".