With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.
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If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.
Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.
You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'
The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.