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“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
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?
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.”
Production
Post-Production and Marketing
Development
Pre-Production
PRODUCERS ON DIRECTORS
“Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut.”
- Thomas Langmann
“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."