Producers Quotes - Page 29

• We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

  Tony Bennett

  Money, Jobs, Artist

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• I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.

  Emma Thompson

  Book, Writing, Los Angeles

  "Thompson plays dual roles in 'Sense and Sensibility'" by Sherry Dean, www.cnn.com. December 14, 1995.

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• As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

  Russell Brand

  Helping, Problem, Involved

  "Russell Brand and Helen Mirren Interview ARTHUR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 9, 2011.

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• The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.

  Graham King

  Team, Keys, Great Team

  Source: collider.com

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• The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

  Daniela Ruah

  People, Guessing, Seats

  Source: collider.com

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• I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

  Josh Radnor

  Battle, Want, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

  Richard Carlson

  Thinking, Self Help, Consciousness

  Richard Carlson (2006). “You Can be Happy No Matter what: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective”, p.13, New World Library

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• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.

  Mervyn King

  People, Adequate, Pay

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• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

  Adam Smith

  Self, Purpose, May

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.274

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• When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers,' the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got 'Wedding Crashers' partly because I was a Bond girl.

  Jane Seymour

  Girl, Wedding, Wedding Crasher

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• A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.

  Andrew Davies

  Years, Office, Distinguished

  "How to turn Dickens into a serial thriller" by Andrew Davies, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2008.

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• In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

  Michael Palmer

  Love, Age, Television

  Michael Palmer (2007). “The Fifth Vial”, p.34, Macmillan

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• I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.

  Mike White

  Running, Horse, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a producer, writer, director. I'm putting everything together very fast, and I'm strong and focused on making the next film as fast as possible. From one film to the other, I'm getting better. I'm learning - that's my style.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Strong, Style, Together

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.

  Odeya Rush

  Appreciation, Jobs, Focus

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Being producer you're still going to have to sell somebody who's going to give you the money on the idea and everything like that. But it does give you a little bit more control if you're thinking in that creative process; it gives you more control to tell the story you want to tell rather than sort of just reading a script that somebody else wrote and says, "Yes, please, you can hire me for this job." So it's a little bit more hands-on, a little bit more closer to the heart.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Jobs, Reading, Heart

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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• When I wrote Chuky script, I was a student at UCLA, an undergraduate and my biggest aspiration for it was that I would get my foot in a door somewhere, that I would get an agent or something and it was just beyond my wildest dreams that this big-time producer, David Kirschner.

  David Kirschner

  Dream, Doors, Ucla

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think it gets really dangerous, though, to do it on the show. I think that the writers and producers are very much aware of that and the dangers of putting characters together and what that can mean for the show. You know, it's possible it could kill the thing that holds the show together, the chemistry, sexual tension between the two characters.

  Emily Deschanel

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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• I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

  Laura Ziskin

  Skills, Actors, Has Beens

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

  Laura Ziskin

  Thinking, Kind, Problem

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.

  Rainn Wilson

  Writing, Character, Creating

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Team, Numbers, Together

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.

  Andre Holland

  Reading, People, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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