It's impressive how much eccentric bullshit people will put up with from male auteurs, and how much they'd be shoved into an ash closet if they were female. (An ash closet is a closet where you put ashes; this might be a thing and it might not be a thing.) As a fun thought exercise, here are how these unilateral geniuses would be given the boot if they were of the more "difficult" gender.

21 Alejandra G. Inarritu

"Yeah, listen Alejandra, we love this idea for a movie where the first shot is a beat-to-shit Michael Keaton in his underwear levitating, and it's all one take. But this is just ... I mean, you see how my hands are tied, right? I mean, leaving the washed-up star with magical powers out of it, you really want to try to shoot a large-scale feature all in one take? That is very hard on the crew, and is gonna cost a fortune in post. And also, it's just weird; all of it is weird. You see how this is all weird, right? We made several suggestions to you about what kind of edits we think would help tell the story, since maybe you just don't know about editing? You really made it hard for us when you doubled down on your own idea again. That's just being difficult. Even the craft services PA sent you some feedback about an idea he had for 'BANG!' 'POW!' comic book flashes in between each take, which I understand you rudely rejected? He's got some great ideas!"