Producers Quotes - Page 20

• It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning.

  Johnny Depp

  Morning, Muffins, Impossible

  "Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Talk DARK SHADOWS, Pulling from the TV Series, Deleted Scenes, a Sequel and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. If he needs me, I'm there for him. As a director, I like to have the producer there with me. As a producer, I don't want to be there because I happen to be a director first and foremost, I don't want to "that guy."

  Brett Ratner

  Running, Giving, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.

  Adam Leipzig

  Decision, Process, Certain

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• I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.

  Anna May Wong

  Real, Tired, Play

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• He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Lying, Character, Thinking

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• I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

  Clay Aiken

  Style, Able, Different

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• [Trade licensing] almost inevitably becomes a tool in the hands of a special producer group to maintain a monopoly position at the expense of the rest of the public. There is no way to avoid this result.

  Milton Friedman

  Hands, Special, Groups

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• It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs.

  Henry George

  Understanding, Farmers, Storekeeper

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions resulting from restrictions and usurpations, and that instead of accepting protection, what labor should demand is freedom. That those who advocate any extension of freedom choose to go no further than suits their own special purpose is no reason why freedom itself should be distrusted.

  Henry George

  Special, Purpose, Abnormal

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Embarrassment, Vulgar, Wells

  "What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 19, 2005.

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• In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hands, Order, Watches

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by Friedrich Hayek, American Economic Review, September 1945.

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• I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.

  Paris Hilton

  Crazy, Character, Simple

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• I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

  M. Ward

  Artist, Ideas, America

  Vanity Fair, August 2006.

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• Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they [producers] are putting in front of me. If they made an attempt to get things right, then I'll criticize them for what they got wrong. If they made no attempt to get things right, and yet they stumble on something that's right, I'll comment on what they got right.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Film, Made, Enjoy

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see.

  Ice Cube

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.

  Jack Jason

  Thinking, Phones, Interesting Situations

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.

  Denzel Washington

  Opportunity, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.

  Steve Irwin

  Mean, Sharks, Wow

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• Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.

  Bon Scott

  Bullshit, Guy, Healthy

  Letter to a former band-mate in Fraternity, 'Uncle' John Ayres, c. 1979.

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• Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Poor, Consumers, Civilized

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.96, Coventry House Publishing

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• But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Character, Home, Self

  Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.344

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• The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Lying, Difficulty, Consumers

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.104, Coventry House Publishing

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• I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.

  Eileen Claussen

  Jobs, Mean, Fate

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• As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.

  Manuel Castells

  Self, Management, Anarchist

  Manuel Castells (2001). “The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society”, Oxford University Press, USA

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