(rick nicita) that's the difference between agents.people say, "do it, you should do it it's perfect, it's great." if i don't want to do it i'm not gonna do it, no matter how many people are telling me to. i think the key is the agents don't have power in themselves their power is ceded to them by who they represent. when the actor has that much control, then he really now is taking on more than just the performance; he's taking on the whole load. and i think all too often that can affect the performance because he's carrying this massive thing there's this, there's that or whatever. it very often can lead to his having control beyond that way beyond that of the producer or the director or the writer about what happens to a film: the writing, the rewriting how it's directed, et cetera. the studios have no security there's nobody to count on; they're just they're just waiting in line. whatever their relationship really was with a given star in the absence of a contract it's at ground zero again. "here's our script please take a look." i