Producers Quotes - Page 15

• If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

  Peter Fonda

  Writing, Should Have, Ego

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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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• What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Giving, Wish

  John Stuart Mill (2007). “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Chaos, Social

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

  Norman Lear

  Directors, Rating

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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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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• But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

  John Frankenheimer

  Choices, Records, Lines

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• Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

  Jerry Harrison

  Sound, Band, Records

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• I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Kids, Rocks, 80s And 90s

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• Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.

  Trevor Horn

  Artist, Authority, Thread

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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 Power

  Proud, Needed, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

  Amy Irving

  Pain, Believe, Passion

  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

  Political, Reason, Wells

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• I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Athlete, Jumping, Ego

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Chronicle' Star Michael B. Jordan" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. February 01, 2012.

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

  Mike Johanns

  Issues, Terrorism, Educated

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

  Bill Kurtis

  Want, Too Much, Bundles

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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

  Chemistry, Plans, Executives

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• In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

  Frank Knight

  Running, Long, Giving

  Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.191, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Writing, People, Albums

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

  Stephen Malkmus

  Sound, Never Change, Changed

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• The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Opportunity, Female Writers, Males

  "This much I know: Chris O'Dowd". Interview with Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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

  Timothy Olyphant

  Doe, Mystery, Knows

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• I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Cameras, Directors, Exciting

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• If no producer, no movie.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Ifs

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• Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Intuition, Actors, Scripts

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