I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can’t because they can’t face it.