Writers have an unfortunate tendency to consider themselves writers only. In the film business—especially in the fact end of it—that’s a luxury they can’t afford. The more they know about all phases of production, the more likely they are to survive. Indeed, a host of the brethren have carried this to the point of abandoning the exclusively “writer” classification altogether, in favor of the increasingly common tag of “hyphenate”—writer-director, writer-producer, or even writer-producer-director.
There’s a sound reason for this switch. In the first place, the hyphenates make more money. But beyond that, screen writers get almighty tired of seeing their scripts butchered. By adding directing and/or producing ...
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