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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

Play, Kind, Interest

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

Nina Jacobson

Sleep, Forever, Break

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Someday hopefully it won’t be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we’ve come…someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly.

Sigourney Weaver

Men, Pigs, Special

"'Women In Hollywood' draws stars". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 7, 2008.

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If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Donald E. Westlake

Independent, Thinking, Roots

The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. May 3, 2002.

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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.

Debby Ryan

Brother, Vision, Helping

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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.

J. Cole

Song, Writing, Good Day

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Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

Ronnie Spector

Years, California, Next Day

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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.

J. Cole

Heart, Long, Hip Hop

"J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

Timbaland

Kids, Sound, Keyboards

"Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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

Timbaland

Keys, Hot, Want

"Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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Producers are now employees, not creators.

Marshall Herskovitz

Employee, Creator

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Barry Mann

Records, Should, Songwriters

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I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

Skrillex

Always Trying, Track, Chance

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

Mario Cantone

Kings, Two, Musical

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

Bernie Mac

Pain, Actors, Might

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There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

Ajay Devgan

Two, Cost, Stuff

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

Ernie Harwell

Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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

Damian Lewis

Patience, Natural

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Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Bryn Terfel

Ideas, Acting, Calm

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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.

Andy Garcia

Empowering, Desire, Want

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

Mike Judge

Games, Voice, Video

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

Katherine Dunham

Partners, Knows

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Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

Leila Janah

Opportunity, Poverty, Banking

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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.

Gabrielle

Book, Ideas, Black

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

Jonah Goldberg

Nba, Diversity, Would Be

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