If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.