Producers famous quotes

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Directors #Looks #Producers

I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.
-- Al Walser

#World #Singers #Producers

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
-- Albert Bandura

#Inspirational #Circumstances #Producers

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
-- Alessandro Nivola

#Gone #Film #Producers

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
-- Alfred Marshall

#Land #Names #Producers

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
-- Andrew Dice Clay

#Directors #Producers

The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.
-- Andy Richter

#People #Taste #Producers

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

#Art #World #Producers

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

#Writing #Creative #Producers

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
-- Babyface

#Diamond In The Rough #Producers #Executives

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
-- Barry Mann

#Records #Should #Producers

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

#Research #Just Being #Producers

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

#Producers #Automobile #Vehicle

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

#Want #Serious #Producers

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Goal #Producers

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

#Comedy #Undone #Producers

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 Power

#Proud #Producers #Proud Of You

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Producers #Belle #Protective

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
-- Charles Durning

#Directors #Producers #Turned Down

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
-- Damian Lewis

#Patience #Natural #Producers

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
-- David E. Kelley

#Chemistry #Producers #Plans

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

#Children #Culture #Producers

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.
-- David Guetta

#Jobs #Sound #Producers

I'm a human entropy producer.
-- Dean Kamen

#Producers #Entropy #Humans

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
-- Deepak Chopra

#Directors #Stories #Producers

If no producer, no movie.
-- Dino De Laurentiis

#Producers

I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
-- George A. Romero

#Sick #Zombie #Producers

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

#Play #Kind #Producers

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
-- Harold Prince

#Directors #Theater #Producers

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

#Understanding #Producers #Farmers

Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.
-- Henry Jenkins

#Moral #Producers #Market Failure

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.
-- Ida Lupino

#Directors #Producers

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.
-- J. Robbins

#Kind #Producers #Term

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Poor #Producers #Consumers

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Lying #Producers #Difficulty

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

#Loyalty #Writing #Producers

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

#Years #Fortune #Producers

Real movie producers arent this nice.
-- Joel Siegel

#Real #Nice #Producers

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

#Way #Aspect #Producers

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

#Thinking #Producers

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

#Ambition #Records #Producers

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

#Years #Saws #Producers

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
-- K. D. Lang

#Perfect #Trying #Producers

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
-- Kabir Bedi

#Roles #Film #Producers

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
-- Kabir Bedi

#Favors #Producers

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
-- Karl Marx

#Long #Producers #Capitalist

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
-- Kaskade

#Stars #Becoming #Producers

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.
-- Katherine Dunham

#Partners #Producers

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

#Made #Producers

I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever.
-- Lauren Shuler Donner

#Producers

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

#Drama #Actors #Producers

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 Hazlewood

#Way #Reason #Producers

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
-- Leon Askin

#Directors #Actors #Producers

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.
-- Louise Jameson

#Political #Reason #Producers

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

#Forever #Producers

Producers are now employees, not creators.
-- Marshall Herskovitz

#Employee #Producers #Creator

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.
-- Marshall Herskovitz

#Entertainment #Forgotten #Producers

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 Lawrence

#Directors #Partners #Producers

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

#Hollywood #Lame #Producers

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
-- Michael Shermer

#Television #Conspiracy #Producers

Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.
-- Mike Johanns

#Issues #Terrorism #Producers

I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.
-- Mithun Chakraborty

#Film #Producers

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

#Thinking #Skulls #Producers

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.
-- Nina Jacobson

#Producers #Filmmaker

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
-- Norman Lear

#Directors #Rating #Producers

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

#Earning #Proud #Producers

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.
-- Paula Abdul

#Would Be #Producers #Be Good

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

#Trying #Theft #Producers

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.
-- Peter Billingsley

#Inspired #Projects #Producers

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.
-- Pierre Omidyar

#Giving #Individual #Producers

I'm just a musician and a record producer.
-- Quincy Jones

#Records #Musician #Producers

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
-- Rachel Griffiths

#Moments #Producers #Screenplays

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.
-- Richard Donner

#Film #Producers

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

#Personality #Different #Producers

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
-- Sam Raimi

#Fun #Lovely #Producers

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 Lennon

#Records #Produce #Producers

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

#Realizing #Producers #Wanted

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
-- Sheryl Crow

#Producers

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

#Office #Said #Producers

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
-- Stephen Malkmus

#Sound #Never Change #Producers

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

#People #Sometimes #Producers

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

#Band #Insult #Producers

The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.
-- Stuart Price

#Lines #Producers

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
-- T Bone Burnett

#School #High School #Producers

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

#Blood #Theatre #Producers

You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
-- Timothy Olyphant

#Doe #Mystery #Producers

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.
-- Trishelle Cannatella

#Reality #Assistants #Producers

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 Hill

#Action #Exciting #Producers

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
-- Winona Ryder

#Sides #Agents #Producers

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

#Trying #Might #Producers

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 Thomas

#Producers

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

#People #Jake #Producers

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 Vanian

#Quality #Punk #Producers

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
-- Eric Bachmann

#Song #Writing #Producers

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
-- Eric Fellner

#Actors #Producers #Good Writers

I haven't seen a lot of young producers who work the floor in a traditional way.
-- Jim Dickinson

#Way #Young #Producers

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 Mason

#Cds #Producers

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.
-- Kieran Bew

#Pests #Want #Producers

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

#Roles #Documentaries #Producers

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

#Like You #Hours #Producers