You don’t have to direct “people” to be a director.
The IMDB describes Director as:
Director
The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director’s duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit.
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note the phrase “artistic control”.
If you shot a documentary about the forest and went to the forest, shot the materiel and then edited it together, wouldn’t you be the Director?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!