This will help the director too. There's an embarrassing waste in movies. The Producers Guild, with the forming of the Producers Credit Board, is trying to regularize the producer credits attached to a film. It's very tough. A movie just cannot take seven or eight different people.
Directors complain that there are no creative producers.
But, there are a lot of other good producers. A producer is a conciliator. Like a top chef, he knows just the right pinch of seasonings to throw into the pot. I've a few projects, but I never discuss them in development. I work with my son, Mark, who started in the business and just ran with it.