Producers Quotes - Page 22

• I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Feet, People

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• Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

  Albert Einstein

  Long Ago, Class, People

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• When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

  Arnold Kling

  Government, Self, Cost

  Arnold Kling (2004). “Learning Economics”, p.296, Xlibris Corporation

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• I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didnt finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.

  Greg Grunberg

  College, Years, Yogurt

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• I always tell the producers, if I can't get the girl at the end of the picture, at least give me more money.

  Ralph Bellamy

  Girl, Giving, Ends

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

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• The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

  Kaskade

  Stars, Becoming, Dance Music

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• Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Country, Jobs, Stupid

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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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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• I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer."

  Kanye West

  Love You, People, Want

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• If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

  Kanye West

  Successful, Rapper, Labels

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• When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Summer, Writing, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

  Rob Zombie

  Personality, Different, Studios

  Interview with Frank Moran, www.horrorgalore.com. March 24, 2015.

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• When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Baby, Couple

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• We are the necessary element since we expend nothing. Management can create its own capital -- the profits. Its business would grow and profits increase. Labor would prosper as well, while the price of the product would remain constant, the prosperity of industry, labor and management would continually increase. We Jews glory in the fact that the stupid goy have never realized that we are the parasites consuming an increasing portion of production while the producers are continually receiving less and less.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Stupid, Facts, Receiving

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• I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Team, Writing, Editing

  Interview with Bridget Foley, www.wmagazine.com. March 1, 2007.

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• Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer are showmen too; but they exploit what is already made. The showmen of Hollywood control the making - and thereby degrade it. For the basic art of motion pictures is the screenplay; it is fundamental, without it there is nothing. Everything derives from the screenplay, and most of that which derives is an applied skill which, however adept, is artistically not in the same class with the creation of a screenplay.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Class, Play

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Later Novels & Other Writings”

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• Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.

  Chiara Barzini

  Drama, Believe, Passion

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• I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

  Danny Trejo

  Boss, Directors, Actors

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• As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

  Hilary Swank

  Hands, Want, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.

  Stephen Fry

  Directors, Tests, Obvious

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• An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Government, Korea, Technological Development

  "Korea at the turning point: innovation-based strategies for development". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb and Young-Hwan Choi, 1996.

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• The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Art, Creativity, Individuality

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.

  Brittany Murphy

  Dream, Artist, Safe Haven

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• And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Directors, Actors

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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• Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.

  Andrew Stanton

  Mean, Hollywood, Titles

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 25, 2008.

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