The opening credits are used to display the most important members of the production, including companies involved in things like the distribution and production, as well as the main actors and directors and the like.
This list is generally kept down to the most important members in order to have the opening more interesting for the audience - they'd probably be more interested in who wrote the screenplay and who the main actor is, for example, than who plays the janitor in the background of scene 5. This could also help in the event of a preview showing that doesn't show all of the main characters of the film, but are potential draws for people to come see the film.
Some films, however, deviate from this normal way of having opening credits - for example, No Country For Old Men has only the distribution companies mentioned in the opening title sequence, possibly to keep the audience thinking of the actors as the roles they're playing rather than the actors they are.
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