Producers Quotes - Page 23

• I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

  Jack Lemmon

  Running, Quitting, Truck

  1986 In Newsweek, 5 May.

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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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• I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

  Shailene Woodley

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

  "‘The Descendants’ Breakout Shailene Woodley on Her Future and Working With George Clooney" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 02, 2011.

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• I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

  Daniel Yergin

  Thinking, World, Want

  "CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.

  Andrew Niccol

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

  Rick Larsen

  Yield, Important, Quality

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• I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.

  Taylor Lautner

  Twilight, Different, Next

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• When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

  Thomas Lennon

  Two, People, Three

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• I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Goal

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• I want to give producers more financial security.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Giving, Want, Financial

  "Minister's second chance for stardom" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

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• I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

  Bruno Mars

  Jobs, Artist, Curves

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Giving, Individual, Wells

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• I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

  Paul Stanley

  Mean, Goal, Car

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• I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Secret, Looks, Roger

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• What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.

  Grant Heslov

  Years, Long, Three

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• I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.

  Joe Johnston

  Dream, Team, Artist

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• Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

  Jason Gann

  Creative, Acting, Want

  "Jason Gann Exclusive Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2011.

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• In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Jobs, New York, Book

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

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• My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

  Thomas Langmann

  Dad, Helping, Conviction

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• Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

  Thomas Langmann

  Cutting, Trying, Directors

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• Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

  Richard Donner

  Film

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• We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

  Benmont Tench

  Trying, Band, Records

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• The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

  Wendell Berry

  Character, Culture, Answers

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Stupid, Class

  "Sex and the Much Married Girl (A Salute to Zsa Zsa Gabor)". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

  J. Robbins

  Kind, Term, Slippery

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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