What is the difference between a producer, executive producer, writer, and director?
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If a production is a baby, the writer and director are like the parents who make the baby. The writer creates the idea for the production and the director executes the idea to create the production into their own vision.
The producer is like the grandparent who supports the parents through the whole process giving advice and financial support. The producer hires the director and buys the script from the writer. The producer could tell the director what kind of film they want. The producer is in charge of making sure the production is made.
The executive producer is like the adoptive parent who funded the producer, director, and writer which allow them to afford to have this baby. As adoptive parent, the executive producer could bump their nose in and give advice like the producer, or just sit back and watch the baby be born. And once the baby is born, the EP gets the fruits of all the work the team did when they give up the baby and the EP adopts the baby as their own. The EP ends up owning the production because they paid for it or set things up for it to be made in the first place.
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