In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.