quotes about Producers
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.
-- Al WalserSource : "Exclusive: Al Walser's shock EDM Grammy nom is 'decades' of work" by Akshay Bhansali, www.mtv.com. December 7, 2012.
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Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
-- Albert Bandura -
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
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Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
-- Alfred MarshallSource : Alfred Marshall, Peter Groenewegen (1997). “Collected works”
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When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.
-- Andy Richter -
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
-- Ann Macbeth -
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I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.
-- Austin Mahone -
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
-- Babyface -
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
-- Barry Mann -
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
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
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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.
-- Bob Lutz -
When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?
-- Brandy Norwood -
I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
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.
-- Carol Leifer -
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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.
-- Cat PowerSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
-- Charles DurningSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
-- Damian Lewis -
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Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
-- David E. Kelley -
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
-- David Elkind -
Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.
-- David Guetta -
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Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
-- Deepak Chopra -
I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
-- George A. RomeroSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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.
-- Gregory Harrison -
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
-- Harold Prince -
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs.
-- Henry George -
Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.
-- Henry Jenkins -
Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.
-- Ida Lupino -
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To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.
-- J. RobbinsSource : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
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Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
-- Jean-Baptiste SaySource : Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.96, Coventry House Publishing
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The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
-- Jean-Baptiste SaySource : Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.104, Coventry House Publishing
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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
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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.
-- Joe Pantoliano -
I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.
-- John Cusack -
We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.
-- John Spence -
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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.
-- Jon Landau -
I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.
-- June Lockhart -
I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
-- K. D. Lang -
You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
-- Kabir Bedi -
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
-- Kabir Bedi -
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
-- Karl Marx -
The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
-- Kaskade -
Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.
-- Katherine Dunham -
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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.
-- Kristin Davis -
I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever.
-- Lauren Shuler Donner -
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.
-- Lea Salonga -
So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.
-- Lee HazlewoodSource : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.
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Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
-- Leon AskinSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.
-- Louise Jameson -
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.
-- Marc Maron -
Producers are now employees, not creators.
-- Marshall HerskovitzSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.
-- Marshall HerskovitzSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.
-- Martin LawrenceSource : "OPEN SEASON: An Interview with Martin Lawrence". Interview with Fred Topel, www.blackfilm.com. September 25, 2006.
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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?
-- Matt Stone -
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
-- Michael Shermer -
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Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.
-- Mike JohannsSource : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
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I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.
-- Mithun Chakraborty -
I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.
-- Nina JacobsonSource : "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.
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You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
-- Norman Lear -
I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.
-- Patrick Macnee -
The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.
-- Paula Abdul -
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.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
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I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.
-- Peter Billingsley -
Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.
-- Pierre Omidyar -
I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
-- Rachel GriffithsSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.
-- Richard Donner -
The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.
-- Rob Zombie -
It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
-- Sam RaimiSource : Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 21, 2007.
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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.
-- Sean LennonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.
-- Sherry Stringfield -
The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
-- Sheryl Crow -
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'.
-- Shirley Temple -
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
-- Stephen Malkmus -
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
-- Stephen Sondheim -
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.
-- Steve Albini -
The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.
-- Stuart Price -
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
-- T Bone Burnett -
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
-- T. S. Eliot -
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
-- Timothy Olyphant -
I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.
-- Trishelle Cannatella -
All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That's the nature of being a producer.
-- Walter HillSource : Source: collider.com
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I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
-- Winona Ryder -
I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.
-- Ashly Burch -
There was a time when certain producers could produce just about anything, and the label execs would say, "That's a such-and-such record. Let's put that out as the first single."
-- Damon ThomasSource : Source: www.billboard.com
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I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.
-- Daveigh Chase -
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What the Sex Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. But punk rock shouldn't be quality; it should be f**king mania. It should be gnarled, a glorious lo-fi live sound.
-- David VanianSource : Source: www.rollingstone.com
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As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
-- Eric BachmannSource : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
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Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
-- Eric Fellner -
I haven't seen a lot of young producers who work the floor in a traditional way.
-- Jim Dickinson -
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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!
-- Karen MasonSource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.
-- Kieran BewSource : Source: collider.com
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In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.
-- Liz W. Garcia -
When I was in the writers' room, all these writers were like, "Ugh, another star that they gave a writing-producing credit to." But then within like an hour, they were like, "You're really a writer." "Yeah, I really am. I'm a writer, and a director, and a producer, and an actor, and a painter, and I do all that stuff in the Lush Life." It was great.
-- Lori Petty -