Producers Quotes - Page 29

• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  Danger Mouse

  Artist, Space, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

  Mila Kunis

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

  George Gilder

  Racism, Hatred, Facts

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.141, Regnery Publishing

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• Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Two, Different, Viewpoints

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.373, AK Press

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• We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

  Alan Price

  Artist, Missionary Zeal, Attempting

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• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rain, Reality, Thinking

  J. G. Ballard (2005). “Conversations”, Re/Search Publications

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• If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.

  Tom Felton

  Lovely, Tea, Example

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• The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

  Novalis

  Thinking, Brain, World

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• The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Jobs, Successful, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.

  J. J. Abrams

  Grateful, Kids, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].

  Lake Bell

  Men, Roles, World

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• This business is hard. People and producers and studios and finance guys get caught up in saying, "Women don't sell movies," or "This person doesn't sell foreign," or "You have to attach guys first," or "People don't want to see women do this." I've heard those things so many times that I've actually heard myself say them, a number of times.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Numbers, People, Guy

  "Katee Sackhoff Talks ACTING OUTLAWS with Tricia Helfer, RIDDICK and Why It’s Rated R, the All-Female EXPENDABLES Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 21, 2012.

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• My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Creative, Roles, Maintaining

  Source: collider.com

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• It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave.

  Carl Mazzocone

  People, Interesting, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie. I said, "I think there's a Broadway musical here." And really, from that day, we started figuring out how we would do it.

  John August

  Thinking, Musical, Big Fish

  Source: collider.com

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• When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Thinking, Color

  "Eva Longoria 'encouraged' by progress in TV's diversity". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. December 5, 2015.

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• The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

  Chris Albrecht

  Challenges, Able, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.

  Robert Greenblatt

  Television, Levels, Broadway

  Source: collider.com

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• We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.

  Nina Tassler

  Character, Fans, Film And Television

  Source: collider.com

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• As the actors on the show we rarely get an opportunity to, as I said we get the scripts the night before but we have great producers on this show, so every once and a while matt or mike will say "I want to take the character in a different direction this season, what do you think about this?" and we do sort of get to add to it and feed it.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Character, Opportunity, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

  Diego Boneta

  Personality, Different, Albums

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 30, 2012.

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• My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.

  Rebecca Eaton

  Jobs, Book, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that.

  Josh Lawson

  Writing, Reality, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Producers don't really publicize movies.

  Rick McCallum

  Source: collider.com

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• The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.

  Rick McCallum

  Eight, Average, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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