Is it easy to please both the director and the producer?

Is it easy to please both the director and the producer?

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It is very difficult to please both the director and the producer. Often, the producer is more concerned with the budget, and the director is only ever concerned with the talent. So, the casting director is right smack bang in the middle of that, because the director will say "I don't want to hear about we can't afford X actor, just get him for me" and the producer will be breathing down my neck and say "yes, but you know we can't afford him." So it's very difficult to juggle the two, but one will get used to that.