Top 10 Craziest Director (article)

Some of the most overlooked personalities in the film industry are the men and women who sit in the director's chair. While most of the public is content with engaging themselves with the off-screen antics of actors and actresses, it is often the directors who outshine their fellow artists in terms of eccentricities and sheer craziness. This list takes a look at ten of these fascinating personalities. It includes the brave, the arrogant, the mentally ill, and the obliviously insane- gathered and ranked based on three criteria. The first is the nature of their work. Those willing to engage in difficult, bizarre, and dangerous projects are ranked higher on this list. The second is the demands that they place on their production crews and actors. The more demanding a director and the more outrageous their requests, the higher they will score. And the third and final criterion involves their lives when they are not sitting behind a camera. Many directors have behavioral ticks, idiosyncrasies, phobias, and habits that influence their work. When these three factors are combined, we get a list of the top ten craziest film directors who ever made a movie.