Top 100 Quotes About Producer
#1. 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.
Rob Paulsen
#2. 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.
Danny Strong
#3. Idolatry is Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.
Rob Lacey
#4. Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
Barbara Windsor
#5. Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
Deepak Chopra
#6. 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.
Russell L. Ackoff
#7. Ran "Inchon" - it is a brutal but gripping picture about the Korean War and for once we're the good guys & the Communists are the villains. The producer was Japanese or Korean which probably explains the preceding sentence.
Ronald Reagan
#8. The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.
John Sununu
#9. There's one thing which I hate about color films ... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.
Claude Chabrol
#10. I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#11. I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.
Peter Billingsley
#12. You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
Wayne W. Dyer
#13. The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
Carolyn Jones
#14. When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
Manish Dayal
#15. I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect people the way they affect me. I don't even need to be in them.
Emma Stone
#16. Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor ... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.
Luc Dardenne
#17. I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul Cezanne
#18. Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
Patricia Riggen
#19. We sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.
Brian Henson
#20. 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!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio, can talk with the director and get his or her vision and help exact that. I think it just gives you more tools.
John Lee Hancock
#22. The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
Sol LeWitt
#23. What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.
Bai Ling
#24. You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
Norman Lear
#25. The radical defining himself as a producer of actions and discourses has ended up fabricating a purely quantitative idea of revolution - as a kind of crisis of overproduction of acts of individual revolt
Anonymous
#26. 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.
Andy Rooney
#27. Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.
Ellen Muth
#28. I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director needs a crew - the writer, the producer, etcetera - and to have that, he needs money.
Roger Corman
#29. Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
Ajay Devgan
#30. What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
Bono
#31. I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.
Mircea Monroe
#32. 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.
Kenny Chesney
#33. I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
Dan Bucatinsky
#34. God never grows two people the same way. God is a hand-crafter, not a mass-producer.
John Ortberg
#35. When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.
Marc Guggenheim
#36. He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.
Liza Minnelli
#37. I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.
Eleanor Friedberger
#38. 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.
Damon Lindelof
#39. 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.
Katharine Whitehorn
#40. I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
Charles Durning
#41. The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
Phil Ramone
#42. The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
Al Kooper
#43. My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.
Thomas Langmann
#44. I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
Lorde
#45. If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.
Mark Romanek
#46. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#47. So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Karl Marx
#48. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
Plato
#49. The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
Rich Cohen
#50. I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.
Nina Jacobson
#51. 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.
Carl Mazzocone
#52. 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.
J. Cole
#53. 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.
Vittorio De Sica
#54. Well digital media and social media are eliminating the middle man - in the old days, you had to go through the editors. Or the television producer, you know? Now you have people talking directly to each other, globally who have never met. I think you put the "word" in "word of mouth."
Kelly Cutrone
#55. 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.
Jerry Brown
#56. We're the world's leading producer of serial killers. It's a sign of sickness, is what it is. We're sick and weak and these killers are like a cancer inside us: the faster we grow, the quicker they multiply.
John Connolly
#57. For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on a producer system, it is difficult for a director to express himself using his own style of filmmaking.
Alan Mak
#58. 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.
Joe R. Lansdale
#59. I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.
Charlize Theron
#60. We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
C.S. Lewis
#61. I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.
Olafur Eliasson
#63. I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
Ted Shackelford
#64. The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.
James Garner
#65. As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
DJ Jazzy Jeff
#66. I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.
Anita Baker
#67. If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.
Marshall Herskovitz
#68. That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
Al Jarreau
#69. Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
Jackie Chan
#70. 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.'
Quincy Jones
#71. I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.
Nick Mason
#72. Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.
Jason Gann
#73. 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.
William Bell
#74. How had she ever thought sleeping with him would be a stress reliever, when he was the biggest producer of her stress?
Susan Meier
#75. My wife - an ex journalist and current TV producer - has a rule that she taught me at the start of B3ta. Does the item make you laugh, or does it make you go, 'Oh my God?' If you score on either count, then you have something that is worth sharing.
Rob Manuel
#76. 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.
Johnny Rivers
#77. 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.
Howard Lawrence
#78. It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.
Kieran Hebden
#79. 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.
Paul Epworth
#80. Let the roar in your heart be the fuel to making dreams a reality".
Pablo De Leon
#81. 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.
Orson Welles
#82. Jerry Bruckheimer is the most hands-on producer that I've worked with. Jerry's very involved in the music, and he's such a fan of film. When you watch him playing back the cues to the picture, he's like a kid in a candy store.
Trevor Rabin
#83. When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of 'The Vampire Diaries' where Tyler is the first successful hybrid that's made.
Michael Trevino
#84. 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.
Michelle Glick
#85. 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 ...
Adi Shankar
#86. I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
Ice Cube
#87. Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Carter Burwell
#88. Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!
Matt Squire
#89. If this is earth,' said the producer from Washington, D.C., 'I'm not interested in what heaven has to offer.
Karsten Heuer
#90. You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.
Sevyn Streeter
#91. My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.
Cassandra Clare
#92. We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.
Nina Tassler
#93. Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.
Tom Hanks
#94. 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.
Terry Zwigoff
#95. We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.
Alan Price
#96. The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#97. Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.
Ren Ng
#98. 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.
Irwin Winkler
#100. Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.
Dominick Dunne
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