Filmmaking / Directing : Filmmaker's Quote by Edwin Adrian Nieves

I dare say there are some awful scripts...

Indeed there are. Some ideas are just not made for the screen.

Or worthy of the death of a tree...

...That sounds quite poetic.

Oh yes there are!!! Good Directors can be involved in bad movies. It'scalled Post Production.

if it was a perfect world. i have had contracts just to direct and i had to work.

Truffant is a firm believer of Auteur theory, so I can see where his opinion is coming from. However, sometimes you can't really do much with the hand you're dealt, and if you've been dealt a bad hand, hence a bad crew, there's a chance that not even you're directing will save the movie.

Well said and argued, Tristen.

If anyone is interested, this is from the essay written by François Truffaut: There are no bad films—there are only mediocre directors. I don’t believe in good and bad films, I believe in good and bad directors. It’s possible that a mediocre or a very average filmmaker might from time to time make a successful film, but such success doesn’t count. It matters less than a Renoir failure, insofar as Jean Renoir is even capable of making a film that fails. Among his films, the one I like the least is French Cancan, where exterior contingencies seem to me to play too great a part. Nonetheless, French Cancan, by virtue of its subject (an inveterate showman’s merging of his personal and professional lives), and of Françoise Arnoul’s guiding performance, mattered more in the year 1955 than all the rest of French cinema put together. A director possess a style that one will find in all his films, and this is true of the worst filmmakers and their worst films. Differences from one film to the next—a more ingenious script, superior photography, or whatever else—don’t matter, because these differences are precisely the product of exterior forces, more or less money, a greater or shorter shooting schedule. What’s essential is that an intelligent and gifted filmmaker remain intelligent and gifted no matter what film he is shooting. I am therefore an advocate of judging, when there is judging to be done, not films but filmmakers. I will never like a Delannoy film; I will always like a Renoir film. Here's the rest of the essay: http://goo.gl/ui5Sx

there are plenty of bad films, usually made by mediocre directors.