Being a filmmaker, especially since the industry floats on market viability and profits, comes hand-in-hand with an uncertain fate for your directorial vision. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

I know I'm not alone in writing the easiest, loudest emotional beat in the toolkit: the dead wife. Or the murdered girlfriend ...

Warner Bros. asked V For Vendetta director James McTeigue to cut something from the movie, and it's probably not what you'd ...