ABSTRACT
Producers control the purse strings, and because everyone lives in a money-based society, it means they have the power: the power to choose, to insist on, to cast, and to sack actors. In an ideal world, the producer will pass on any of her thoughts to the director, who in turn will find ways of reinterpreting them to give to you, if they fit in with the overall structure and thought of the production. In reality, producers have been known to take actors aside to give them their own private instructions, with or without the knowledge of the director. Never forget that David Selznick, the producer of Gone with the Wind, had worked on, and approved, a color storyboard of every shot in the film before a director was even contracted, and the one who started directing this fabulous epic was not the one who finished it.
