 Fornés is also recognized as a brilliant and exacting director and one of the most significant teachers of playwriting of her time.Her methodology was influenced by acting exercises she encountered at the Actor's Studio, and focused on getting writers into their bodies and creative unconscious minds to become intimate with their imaginations.A documentary feature about Fornés called "The Rest I Make Up" by Michelle Memran was made in collaboration with Fornés, and focuses on her creative life in the years after she stopped writing due to dementia.