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ACTORS ON DIRECTORS & PRODUCERS

“Effective casting is 60% or more of a director’s job.”

- Alec Baldwin

“Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be a producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.”

- John Malkovich

“Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.”

- Ken Stott

“Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don’t see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.”

- Julie Harris

DIRECTORS ON PRODUCERS

“As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer’s is to save money.”

- Shekhar Kapur

“On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.”

- Griffin Dunne

IN THEIR OWN WORDS . . .

To give you some more insight into some of the differences between directors and producers, here are some quotes by people who should know -

Hollywood actors, directors and producers.

YOUR TURN . . .

But at the end of the day it's all just a matter of opinion.

So, what do you think?

WHAT DO DIRECTORS DO?

According to the DGA (Director’s Guild of America), a director;

“Contributes to all creative elements relating to the making of a motion picture and participates in molding and integrating them into one dramatic and aesthetic whole.”

THIS INCLUDES:

But that’s a bit of a mouthful. So, here’s a breakdown of some of the director’s tasks:

Production

  • Supervise daily operations of the producing team
  • Provide on-set consultation with the director and other creative personnel
  • Approve cost reports

Post-Production and Marketing

  • Consult with the editor, director, composer and visual effects staff
  • Consult with creative and financial personnel
  • Participate in marketing and distribution

Development

  • Conceive of the premise of the production
  • Select the writer
  • Secure the necessary rights and financing
  • Supervise the development process

Pre-Production

  • Select the director, co-producer, cinematographer, unit production manager, production designer
  • Select principal cast
  • Participate in location scouting
  • Approve the final shooting script, production schedule and budget

PRODUCERS ON DIRECTORS

  • Participate in selecting cast and other creative personnel
  • Approve rights to third parties
  • Approve script, locations, set designs, and shooting schedules
  • Recommend script changes
  • Direct the film
  • Help select the second unit director
  • Consult with the second unit director about shooting second unit photography
  • Review unedited footage (also known as “dailies”)
  • View the editor’s assembly (also known as an editor’s “rough cut”)
  • Supervise the editor’s first cut
  • Prepare the director's cut

“Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut.”

- Thomas Langmann

  • Instruct editor to make changes necessary for the director’s cut
  • Consult throughout post-production
  • Work on the last version of the film before negative cutting and dubbing
  • Direct dialogue replacement (also known as “looping”) and narration
  • Participates in spotting and dubbing of sound and music
  • Participate in the rating of the film by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
  • Participate in previews of the film before it’s widely released
  • Consult on the content of the DVD release

WHAT DO PRODUCERS DO?

“Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.”

- Lynda Obst

According to the PGA (Producers Guild of America), a producer is;

"The person who bears most of the responsibility for a film’s production. In other words, the producer has significant decision-making authority over all phases of a film’s production."

DIRECTOR VS PRODUCER

WHO SHOULD RECEIVE THE AWARD?

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