I interview my Afi, film and TV producer - Atticus and Chris Newman

Um, well, what makes someone a really good director?

A good director.

knows how to lean on everybody else on the film to get what he wants onto the screen.

The director, depending on the experience, comes equipped with various tools and experience to help them direct a film.

But directing anything requires a lot of people.

And making use of those people to the best of your ability makes you a good director.

So I have a mini question that's not on the script for the questions.

Don't the writers usually have full control?

The writers?

Like the person who wrote the movie? It's a

little different in television.

The writers on television episodes and created the TV format, those writers have a lot of control.

In films, it's a different balance of authority.

In filmmaking, normally the director has much more control than the writer.

What goes onto the screen is the director's job.

The writer has written everything to help the director do the job and make it clear by the stage instructions and the way the characters are written that it should be clear what the director is trying to do.

So the director interprets the script for films to get the film he thinks that the script demands.

In television, the authority of who commands the scripts falls to the writer and the producers more than the directors.

Some of the directors only come on and do one episode out of a 10-episode show, and then they go off and do something else.

But the producers and the writers are there for the whole run of the show.

And another mini question that's not from the script.

What does a producer do? I've always been wondering.

So the producer description is quite wide.

A producer can raise the money for a film.

A producer can find the property to turn into the film.