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Movie director Eddie Nartey says he belongs to the school of thought that believes both minor and major casts work together to make a good movie, and therefore no role is more important than the other. According to the actor-turned-movie-director, every role is essential in the making of a movie, irrespective of whether it is a major or minor character. Roles, he said, complement each other, explaining that if Majid Michel plays a lead in a movie without extras to support him, it won�t make sense to viewers. �There is nothing like big or small roles. Every role in a movie is essential. Even the role of extras in the movie�without them, the movie wouldn�t be what it should. Every character in a movie contributes greatly to the story and the movie as whole. Let me give you an example: If we have Majid Michel playing the major character, what we refer to as the �big role�, and he goes to the market to purchase something. If in that scene we don�t have a lot of extras to depict a market scene, how would the audience accept that scene as a market place when we all know what markets are? �Take the movie Expendables for instance; a lot of the big actors played as cameo in the movie and those roles were very significant. Indeed there is no small or big role in a movie,� Eddie told News-One on Saturday. Veteran actor, David Dontoh raised the issue about big and small roles a couple of weeks ago. �We don�t have small roles and big roles. We actually have small actors and big actors because an actor takes a small role and makes it the biggest, depending upon the story. And so I don�t discriminate in the size of the role I play in a movie, except if it is not challenging enough for me. I will normally like to go in for challenging roles,� he said.