What if you could put a camera anywhere, at any time in history? What if there were no limits to what you could direct? “That would be suicide,” says Guillermo del Toro, 53 (The Shape of Water), at THR’s Nov. 12 Director Roundtable. “Limits are what give you freedom.” Still, pushed, he admits he would love to film his grandmother, with whom he had a complicated relationship, to check his memory.
First-time director Greta Gerwig, 34 (Lady Bird), would shoot Socrates. “He had these dialogues with Diotima, a prostitute in ancient Greece — I would have loved to hear what those women had to say,” she offers. Denis Villeneuve, 50 (Blade Runner 2049), would train his camera on Jesus. Patty Jenkins, 46 (Wonder Woman), would put hers in a high-security…