The parent is making a philosophical argument. The exact Hollywood definitions aren’t important since there are far many more job roles in film production compared to software development. If you insist though just replace creator with producer in his original argument and it’s the same - you can produce a movie without doing the acting yourself.
You kind of missed the “and direct actors to play it out” part. If you did all of that, that’s essentially the creator.
... What was the last word in my comment?
The parent is making a philosophical argument. The exact Hollywood definitions aren’t important since there are far many more job roles in film production compared to software development. If you insist though just replace creator with producer in his original argument and it’s the same - you can produce a movie without doing the acting yourself.
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