Producers Quotes - Page 19

• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Want, Able

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

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• After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and counselors who wanted nothing to do with my ass during school were wanting to kiss it. They'd be interviewed by a newspaper of magazine and their tone would change. 'Oh yes, I knew Greg Noll. He was in my class. Fine, upstanding young man.' What bullshit.

  Greg Noll

  Teacher, School, Kissing

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• It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Taught, Economic, Economy

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 746), 1946.

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• Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Long, Sitting, Stores

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• With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

  Ice Cube

  Real, Track, Comedy

  "Ice Cube's Return to Gangsta". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 15, 2014.

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• My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

  Norman Granz

  Artist, Genuine, Function

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• Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.

  Bennie Maupin

  Determination, Passion, Persistence

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• Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

  Soundarya

  Dad, Science, College

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• The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

  Jessica Zafra

  Stupid, People, Pay

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

  Henry Jenkins

  Moral, Market Failure, Consumers

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• I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Rapper, Visionaries

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• 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

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Commodity, Refrigerators

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• He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed to play that then the way that a Hollywood producer would expect it to be played. Whether it was that or the posthorn solo from Mahler's Symphony No. 3, he would expect that to be played in the way that Leonard Bernstein wanted to hear it. In retrospect, I think it was a sensational way to teach this particular group of students. By the time you graduated you could absolutely read anything with any trumpet.

  Manny Laureano

  Thinking, Play, Symphony

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• New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Business, Errors, Imagination

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• The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

  Morgan Brittany

  Uplifting, Dirty, Trying

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• Will there be titty? Sure. Boom! I'm a producer. Where you been all our life, boy? We been lookin for you in Hollywood.

  Bill Hicks

  Boys, Hollywood, Our Lives

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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 hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Photography, Musician, Photographer

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• There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Wine, Italian, Jugs

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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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• You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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