Quotes about Producer

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything. Votes: 3

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints. Votes: 3

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. Votes: 3

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species." Votes: 3

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records. Votes: 3

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another. Votes: 3

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. Votes: 1

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. Votes: 1

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact. Votes: 1

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors. Votes: 1

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. Votes: 1

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society. Votes: 1

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ. Votes: 1

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.' Votes: 1

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. Votes: 1

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. Votes: 1

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist. Votes: 1

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. Votes: 1

There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap. Votes: 1

If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible. Votes: 1

A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background. Votes: 1

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it. Votes: 1

I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself. Votes: 1

I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors. Votes: 1

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? Votes: 1

Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is. Votes: 1

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me. Votes: 1

I've struggled a lot to get where I am. I initially got rejected by every producer. But no complaints. I enjoyed each and every moment of the struggle. My first break came in 1997 from Krishna Vamsi and then Puri Jagannadh, who is my closest friend. I owe everything I am to him. Our careers have evolved simultaneously. Votes: 1

When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone. Votes: 1

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that. Votes: 1

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age. Votes: 1

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. Votes: 1

If no producer, no movie. Votes: 0

I'm a human entropy producer. Votes: 0

My son is a hip-hop producer. Votes: 0

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. Votes: 0

After three albums, you should shoot your producer Votes: 0

I'm just a musician and a record producer. Votes: 0

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story Votes: 0

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. Votes: 0

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver. Votes: 0

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25. Votes: 0

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer. Votes: 0

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London. Votes: 0

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer. Votes: 0

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. Votes: 0

Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer. Votes: 0

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer. Votes: 0

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor. Votes: 0

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer. Votes: 0

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show. Votes: 0

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term. Votes: 0

I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever. Votes: 0

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience. Votes: 0

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king. Votes: 0

I never want to be the producer that I too often got. Votes: 0

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer. Votes: 0

Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion. Votes: 0

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. Votes: 0

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs. Votes: 0

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer. Votes: 0

You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer. Votes: 0

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone. Votes: 0

The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer. Votes: 0

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director. Votes: 0

All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer. Votes: 0

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. Votes: 0

I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things. Votes: 0

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems. Votes: 0

Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression. Votes: 0

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting Votes: 0

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired. Votes: 0

If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer. Votes: 0

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire. Votes: 0

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. Votes: 0

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art. Votes: 0

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer... Votes: 0

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer. Votes: 0

Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing. Votes: 0

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets. Votes: 0

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me. Votes: 0

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. Votes: 0

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music. Votes: 0

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs Votes: 0

If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. Votes: 0

A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't. Votes: 0

I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together. Votes: 0

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. Votes: 0

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. Votes: 0

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. Votes: 0

The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened. Votes: 0

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. Votes: 0

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together. Votes: 0

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts. Votes: 0

The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around. Votes: 0

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished. Votes: 0

One of the great things is, you're never a producer unless you're making a movie. Votes: 0

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on. Votes: 0

I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer. Votes: 0

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators. Votes: 0

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken. Votes: 0

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is. Votes: 0

When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project. Votes: 0

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them. Votes: 0

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools. Votes: 0

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic. Votes: 0

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. Votes: 0

Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win! Votes: 0

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. Votes: 0

It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning. Votes: 0

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. Votes: 0

The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening. Votes: 0

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally. Votes: 0

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama. Votes: 0

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer. Votes: 0

I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director. Votes: 0

Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video. Votes: 0

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. Votes: 0

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot. Votes: 0

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well. Votes: 0

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer. Votes: 0

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact. Votes: 0

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut. Votes: 0

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems. Votes: 0

I'm the producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," so I definitely have an exciting day job. Votes: 0

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind. Votes: 0

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out. Votes: 0

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality. Votes: 0

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. Votes: 0

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone. Votes: 0

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates. Votes: 0

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi. Votes: 0

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country. Votes: 0

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff. Votes: 0

Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you. Votes: 0

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country. Votes: 0

As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ. Votes: 0

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak Votes: 0

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak. Votes: 0

You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one. Votes: 0

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. Votes: 0

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer. Votes: 0

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend. Votes: 0

I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer. Votes: 0

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor. Votes: 0

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. Votes: 0

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck. Votes: 0

I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man. Votes: 0

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith. Votes: 0

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. Votes: 0

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. Votes: 0

Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years. Votes: 0

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available. Votes: 0

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American. Votes: 0

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal. Votes: 0

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers. Votes: 0

The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste. Votes: 0

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. Votes: 0

Wherever I make a movie, no matter what size it is, it's always about a straightforward communication with the producer. Votes: 0

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you. Votes: 0

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer. Votes: 0

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. Votes: 0

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. Votes: 0

It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage. Votes: 0

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies. Votes: 0

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made. Votes: 0

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer Votes: 0

Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly. Votes: 0

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them. Votes: 0

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. Votes: 0

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell. Votes: 0

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity. Votes: 0

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer. Votes: 0

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer. Votes: 0

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page. Votes: 0

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television. Votes: 0

Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances. Votes: 0

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. Votes: 0

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with. Votes: 0

As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like... Forever. Votes: 0

By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy. Votes: 0

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role. Votes: 0

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ. Votes: 0

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far. Votes: 0

As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with. Votes: 0

I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience. Votes: 0

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss. Votes: 0

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction. Votes: 0

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations. Votes: 0

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked. Votes: 0

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. Votes: 0

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer. Votes: 0

I brought in producer Johan Carlsson [Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida] and asked, "Can you make this better?" And he did. Votes: 0

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. Votes: 0

You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it. Votes: 0

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other. Votes: 0

Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers. Votes: 0

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living. Votes: 0

I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing! Votes: 0

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous. Votes: 0

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on. Votes: 0

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director. Votes: 0

I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it. Votes: 0

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us. Votes: 0

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office. Votes: 0

I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino. Votes: 0

In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers. Votes: 0

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host. Votes: 0

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer. Votes: 0

Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out. Votes: 0

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker. Votes: 0

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer. Votes: 0

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. Votes: 0

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot. Votes: 0

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right. Votes: 0

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. Votes: 0

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women. Votes: 0

The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer. Votes: 0

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative. Votes: 0

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit. Votes: 0

Will there be titty? Sure. Boom! I'm a producer. Where you been all our life, boy? We been lookin for you in Hollywood. Votes: 0

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. Votes: 0

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap. Votes: 0

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer. Votes: 0

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen? Votes: 0

The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that. Votes: 0

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores. Votes: 0

I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit. Votes: 0

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point? Votes: 0

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world. Votes: 0

I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around. Votes: 0

I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget. Votes: 0

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully. Votes: 0

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them. Votes: 0

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending. Votes: 0

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer. Votes: 0

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA. Votes: 0

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall. Votes: 0

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. Votes: 0

I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it. Votes: 0

I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium. Votes: 0

I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books ... Votes: 0

When you're a writer and you're a producer, traditionally the junkets are really focused on the beautiful people and nobody wants to talk to you. Votes: 0

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. Votes: 0

I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together. Votes: 0

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence. Votes: 0

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show. Votes: 0

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence. Votes: 0

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one. Votes: 0

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future. Votes: 0

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist. Votes: 0

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer. Votes: 0

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer. Votes: 0

Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand. Votes: 0

I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life. Votes: 0

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. Votes: 0

California is the third largest oil producer. More importantly, California burns more oil, consumes more oil than any state or collection of states in America. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn. Votes: 0

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator. Votes: 0

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you. Votes: 0

E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused. Votes: 0

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public. Votes: 0

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable. Votes: 0

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry. Votes: 0

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters. Votes: 0

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation. Votes: 0

The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself. Votes: 0

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public Votes: 0

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself. Votes: 0

Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape. Votes: 0

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't. Votes: 0

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform. Votes: 0

I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life. Votes: 0

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. Votes: 0

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it. Votes: 0

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress. Votes: 0

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer. Votes: 0

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there. Votes: 0

I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely hand it over to them. Votes: 0

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor. Votes: 0

If you hire a producer with a big name, you know he's kinda got his way of doing everything and then you kinda sound like, you know... Votes: 0

A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album. Votes: 0

The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch. Votes: 0

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book." Votes: 0

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office. Votes: 0

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree. Votes: 0

When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business. Votes: 0

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that. Votes: 0

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates. Votes: 0

Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever. Votes: 0

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing. Votes: 0

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours. Votes: 0

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. Votes: 0

I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer. Votes: 0

It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave. Votes: 0

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?" Votes: 0

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle. Votes: 0

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility. Votes: 0

I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer. Votes: 0

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it. Votes: 0

I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business. Votes: 0

A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other. Votes: 0

The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series. Votes: 0

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young, I wanted to be an actress. Votes: 0

A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip. Votes: 0

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer Votes: 0

To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a resume now, which is pretty cool. Votes: 0

If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label. Votes: 0

What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music. Votes: 0

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer. Votes: 0

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer. Votes: 0

The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing. Votes: 0

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form. Votes: 0

One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'. Votes: 0

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted. Votes: 0

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years. Votes: 0

Getting back to inflation, it is important to note that the producer price Index does not reflect wage pressures - and that is where the inflation threat really lies. Votes: 0

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them. Votes: 0

I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody. Votes: 0

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things. Votes: 0

I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer. Votes: 0

With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff. Votes: 0

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough! Votes: 0

I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way. Votes: 0

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind. Votes: 0

It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain. Votes: 0

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. Votes: 0

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world. Votes: 0

Steve produced Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys and one more. Then he and I wrote a few songs together and became good friends. He was a talented producer. Votes: 0

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life Votes: 0

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop. Votes: 0

[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that's Mark Burnett and that's the way it's going to be. Votes: 0

I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while. Votes: 0

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film. Votes: 0

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind. Votes: 0

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money. Votes: 0

The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer. Votes: 0

Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer. Votes: 0

It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old. Votes: 0

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something. Votes: 0

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry. Votes: 0

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films. Votes: 0

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Votes: 0

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny. Votes: 0

If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree. Votes: 0

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya. Votes: 0

I have to admit that I am not great at selecting music for CDs! I have a few personal favorites, and then I let my producer take it from there! Votes: 0

I'm a producer/rapper so I feel like I can do anything. I can do all kinds of music. I've done all kinds of music and I'm good at it. Votes: 0

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor. Votes: 0

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. Votes: 0

I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be. Votes: 0

Gun producer and the killer is the same thing! Be ethical, stop producing guns! Be human, for God's sake, for there shall never be peace of mind for the wicked! Votes: 0

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me. Votes: 0

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more. Votes: 0

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me. Votes: 0

For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that. Votes: 0

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle. Votes: 0

Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though. Votes: 0

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences. Votes: 0

The writers on my team and the producers and executive producer should be called talent. We anchor four hours on Saturday and three on Sunday. How they do that astonishes me. Votes: 0

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned. Votes: 0

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it. Votes: 0

Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me. Votes: 0

The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special.It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record. Votes: 0

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time. Votes: 0

Ice Age' felt like stage acting. You'd write a sequence, and sometimes you'd submit pages, but other times, I would actually perform it for the directors and producer in my office. Votes: 0

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist. Votes: 0

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes. Votes: 0

Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright? Votes: 0

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me. Votes: 0

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic. Votes: 0

Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world. Votes: 0

I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that. Votes: 0

I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didn't finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year. Votes: 0

The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you arenot a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the low-cost producer is the only winner. Votes: 0

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity. Votes: 0

There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards. Votes: 0

There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer. Votes: 0

Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them. Votes: 0

I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didnt finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year. Votes: 0

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself. Votes: 0

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color. Votes: 0

Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart. Votes: 0

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ... Votes: 0

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure. Votes: 0

I would like to work with a great producer who I haven't met yet. I'm not sure who he is, but I'm looking for someone to take me to the next level. Votes: 0

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?' Votes: 0

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me? Votes: 0

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit. Votes: 0

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists. Votes: 0

It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker. Votes: 0

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation. Votes: 0

I'm camera shy. I don't necessarily like being front and center. I'd rather not have my face all up in everything. I'm not trying to be some mysterious producer or anything like that. Votes: 0

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material. Votes: 0

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation. Votes: 0

When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks. Votes: 0

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television. Votes: 0

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it. Votes: 0

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound. Votes: 0

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists. Votes: 0

Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development. Votes: 0

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak. Votes: 0

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate. Votes: 0

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer. Votes: 0

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black. Votes: 0

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black. Votes: 0

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing. Votes: 0

I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer." Votes: 0

Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so rewarding. I got to be involved with the writing, the casting. Votes: 0

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything. Votes: 0

I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. Votes: 0

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened! Votes: 0

I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear. Votes: 0

I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there. Votes: 0

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. Votes: 0

The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in the plantations of the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast is the largest producer of cocoa. Votes: 0

The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record. Votes: 0

I'm working with a producer, Scott Jacoby, who co-wrote "Trouble" off No Beginning No End. Without giving away too much, it's a definite pop/r&b vibe, pretty strong melodies, and definitely about songs. Votes: 0

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation. Votes: 0

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff. Votes: 0

My uncle was a music producer and even he'd tell me to get a proper job. I tried to get him to give me five grand to make an album - it didn't happen. Votes: 0

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time. Votes: 0

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. Votes: 0

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself. Votes: 0

At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Votes: 0

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality. Votes: 0

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form. Votes: 0

If Hollywood is the global producer for [media] products all around the world, that's of concern. If all audiences around the world know of America is what they see from Hollywood, then we're in trouble. Votes: 0

I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a TV writer. I had the executive producer title. I was running the room. Votes: 0

I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer. Votes: 0

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me. Votes: 0

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people. Votes: 0

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in. Votes: 0

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else. Votes: 0

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do. Votes: 0

I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on Pi and Requiem. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films. Votes: 0

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do. Votes: 0

I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit. Votes: 0

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless. Votes: 0

It's not like I just take the beat, rap on it and take it for what it is, I always have the producer send it to me, loop the track out, move some stuff around. Votes: 0

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along. Votes: 0

Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not just a club DJ; I am a producer, and I'll only DJ when the crowd is there to enjoy the music. Votes: 0