Possibly do both - like Mel Gibson or Sylvester Stallone, who have both starred in and directed their own movies in the past.

Many leading actors tend to "ghost direct" their own movies - especially when working with inexperienced or rookie directors for the first time.

But I think, as a singular choice, directing is a better but more strenous option - because the director is the real captain of the ship (movie).

I do watch movies often if my favorite actors/actresses star in them, but I definitely prefer more to watch movies if they're directed by my favorite directors (James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Michael Mann, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, etc). 

A movie is a story told by the director, and not represented only by a character in the movie, portrayed by the leading actor.  

Pomegranates. It's my favorite fruit.

I like dates, bananas, lemons, melons, watermelons, pineapples and strawberries too.

I like the answers given by Alexander999 and Kuu3. While Alexander999 correctly asks “what would women be without men and vice versa", Kuu3 has highlighted the nature of some of the answers to this discussion.

Both men and women are equally important and complementary (they complete each other), but they are not "equal", as both are different, with unique abilities and gifts. Both men and women are indispensable to ensure the survival of mankind and civilization. 

Generalizing the permanent superiority of one gender to another is either misogyny or feminism, depending on the stance taken, and the person taking it. Neither gender has to be apologetic for being either male or female, as both genders have indispensable contributions to make and roles to play for humankind and civilization to survive and grow. Their roles may not be the same, but are complementary and necessary.

This discussion is similar to another discussion "Which is more important: day or night?" I think diurnal creatures would answer "day" and nocturnal creatures answer "night" because each of these type sleep in the opposite time. If that is the case, then what they would fail to realise is the importance of sleep. 

Happiness is the pursuit of "power", and the maintenance of the "power" we already have in our lives.

Sometimes we give this power to others, to make them happy.

Why power? Because life itself is "power". Without life (power), our bodies are lifeless (powerless). Imagine an electric bulb without electricity (power). It emits no light. But with electricity (power), the electric bulb comes to "life" and emits light. We are the same. All forms of life function on the same principle.

"Power" can be created by many things - independence, faith, love, wealth, health, emotional strength, success, career, etc. All these things help to create a sense of "power" in our lives - depending from person to person.

We feel empowered when we are loved. We feel sad(powerless) when we are rejected/unloved. 

We feel strong when we are healthy. We feel weak(loss of power) when we are sick. 

We feel independent when we have wealth. We feel dependent (powerless) when we don't have enough wealth. 

We feel accomplished with a good career. We feel aimless (powerless) when we don't have a good career. 

We feel emotionally strong with faith. We feel unsure (powerless) of the future when we don't have enough faith.

All this shows the importance of power, in our lives. Without power, no one can be truly happy. What defines power - varies from person to person.

When we have these things, we have a feeling of empowerment. And then we share these things with those who don't have them, to create a sense of happiness (empowerment) in those people's lives. We can only share what we have. We can't share what we don't have. And what do we share? Forms of "power".

Not having time on your side. Time is the most important thing, which controls our life.

Eg. not recieving the right things what you wanted at the right time. Not being able to be at the right place at the right time to do/get the right time.Being prevented from doing the right thing at the right time, and being told much later that what I said/wanted to do was the "correct" thing. We all need time to support us throughout to be happy. Most of the time, we can change our time (by taking some steps in the correct direction), but the times when we cannot change our conditions inspite of taking the correct steps, proves that time is the master of our success/happiness. At such times, the only thing which comes to our rescue is faith and patience.

When you have time on your side, everything falls in place - you are able to do the right thing at the right time to get the things you wanted. Attaining success is easier. Even people are able to understand and accept you better! When time is not on your side, everything (success, happiness, plans,etc.) is delayed. And when you do get those things at a later time, you often realize that you don't want/need those things anymore, at that delayed moment. That creates apathy and disgust.

Delay (in recieving success,love,wealth,materialization of plans/ideas, etc.) is often the most common reason for unhappiness.

Telepathic mind control.

Like in the movie "Inception".

I had a friend who used to attend stress/anger management classes . He taught me some tips that he had learnt during that course on how to deal with both difficult situations and people. Here are some of them:

If you can avoid such people altogether, it's the best route. Don't try to be a hero by taking "on" these people. Out of sight is out of mind, so move yourself away from the environment that these people occupy. Nothing cowardly about it, as avoidance is the default measure which is practiced by almost all creatures on this planet in stressful situations (Flight or stay to fight adrenaline response).

But if you can't avoid such people, you can:

1. Ignore them with patience. Silence can help in such situations, so as not to incite the person harassing you more.

1. If they don't relent, try to talk to them, but calmly and with reason

2.If that fails, ignore them again

4.And even after that they still continue to hurt you, you have no option but to resort to retaliation.

5.Retaliation can be verbal or non-verbal, direct or indirect. The correct order of retaliation: indirect verbal, then direct verbal, then indirect non-verbal. The last but worst way to retaliate is the direct non-verbal way, because it often leads to or includes violence - and should be resorted only in dire situations.

But it is better to study the people who are harassing you first. Try to analyze their behavior and personality, and you'll know how to tackle them.