Producers Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.

  John Frankenheimer

  Cities, People, Office

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Activity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Machinery, Creator

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Avid, America, Fiction

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.110, Random House

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• It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Television, Tvs

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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

  Political, Reason, Wells

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

  Michael B. Jordan

  Moving, Actors, Want

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

  Tucker Carlson

  Waiting, Host, Produce

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• He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

  Saffron Burrows

  Lunch, Laughing, Together

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

  Katherine Dunham

  Partners, Knows

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• He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

  Michael Apted

  Artist, Trying, Different

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• After three albums, you should shoot your producer

  Jimmy Iovine

  Albums, Three, Should

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• Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self Esteem, Maturity, Waiting

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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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