During the question and answer session, the issue of the director's vanity credit popped up immediately. That the director is the author of the film. No one person makes a film. Pogue points out that the vanity credit is actually a divisive issue among the directors themselves. Creative issues, says Pogue, also affect financial issues.
Money follows power.
It's because you have no power. They don't have literary or drama skills , they have no history of the business, and they have no cultural reference points beyond their own generation. The expansion of the Internet is intensifying the need for stronger policies for compensation and residuals. A lot of new technologies are affecting what we're paid and how they're going to pay us. Questions were raised about what writers could do before and during the strike, should it indeed happen.