What do all great filmmakers have in common?

Other than the obvious answer that they all have $$$. What work ethics do the great directors possess? What qualities other than (having connections) do all they have that allows them to make the big pictures?

I understand the fact that a good picture does not in fact mean it has to be big. But my question is in regards to the BIG pictures.
 
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I would agree, except when a movie bombs at the box office how often does the DOP, or the production designer get the blame by the studio or the media? The director, WILL, on the other hand get the blame.

That's the downside, the upside is they get ALL the credit when it's good.

That was my point. It wasn't one person's "fault" when a movie fails, but the blame goes onto a single person who is allegedly the "filmmaker", as opposed to all the people who worked on it.

People who work as craftspeople on a feature ARE all filmmakers in my view. I'd call Roger Deakins the D.P. a filmmaker, even though he hasn't mastered sound department or directing. I'd call Walter Murch a filmmaker because he is one of the greatest editors of all time, not because he directed shorts in college.
 
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