Mike Leigh and Alfred Hitchcock as Directors.

I was reading this article the other day about Mike Leigh's latest film: "Another Year." Being a great fan of Hitchcock, a director who put all his ideas onto a storyboard then meticulously followed this through so all his actors usually had to fall in line, I couldn't believe just how Mike Leigh works. He seems to create the dialogue or script organically; effectivly he works with his actors and then a kind of script follows from their natural performances. This liberates the actors by allowing them to be more true to their roles; it's like method acting where the actor becomes the character, Al Pacino is a master at this, and taking it one step further. So I guess it allows the audience to believe in the reality of the film. Hitchcock was an expert at manipulating the emotions of his audiences with his great suspense films of the 40's and 50's, but Mike Leigh seems to be engaging the audience in a totally different way.