Producers Quotes - Page 34

• All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in a spaceship. It feels like you're in 2001 or something like that. It's massive and well constructed and highly technologically advanced and occupied by these wise scientists, engineers, and producers. Listening to it, it just doesn't sound like me - that's a younger self that didn't know who he was or what he was doing. I can't identify with a nebulous cloud.

  Will Oldham

  Wise, Clouds, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time they're like, "Can you try it this way, can you try it that way?" That's each line in the song, for each song.

  Glenn Danzig

  Song, Trying, Different

  "Other than Portlandia, Glenn Danzig doesn't get to the beach very often". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2016.

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• We also exchange oil for software technology. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade. We believe in fair trade and exchange, not competition but cooperation. I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

  Hugo Chavez

  Believe, Technology, Oil

  Source: progressive.org

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• We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

  Todd Lieberman

  People, Stories, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.

  Mark Ronson

  Dream, Song, Guitar

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

  Charles Busch

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Regardless of whether or not the producers think that there are five other people waiting for the job, the one that is there needs to be treated as if they are the only person for the job in that moment.

  Anika Noni Rose

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I approach mastering a little differently than some of my peers: I spend a lot of time creating a dialogue with the artist and the producers and mixers to try and get what they really are looking for.

  Emily Lazar

  Artist, Creating, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's not that appealing when something sexist happens to you. But if you're strong enough, and you can push that aside and keep your goal in mind and remember that you're doing your job - whatever that is, whether it's a producer or an artist or a mastering engineer - because you love it, then all that stuff falls by the wayside.

  Emily Lazar

  Strong, Jobs, Fall

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

  Candice Patton

  Answers, Way, Happens

  Source: collider.com

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• I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

  Geena Davis

  Tv Shows, Careers, Tvs

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Together, Agents, Film

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

  Bai Ling

  Quality, Directors, Actresses

  Disc Dish Interview, www.discdish.com. July 8, 2013.

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• [Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!"

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  "Chilling with Ice". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.

  Mark Duplass

  Strong, Creative, Directors

  "Jay and Mark Duplass Don’t Want ‘Togetherness’ Season 2 to Disappoint You". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2016.

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• For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.

  B. J. Porter

  Dream, Ideas, Office

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and networks stop wanting to buy them, but because they wanted to buy them before the producer wanted to make them, the producers are still hanging on to wanting to make them.

  B. J. Porter

  Hanging On, Buying, Periods

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• "Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.

  Tom Cole

  Team, Amazon, Three

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of putting it on film there's going to be a variation and adaptation, I mean, it's a fine dance and a balance. Our producers and directors have worked so hard to get that right and I'm really proud. I think it's a pretty good job.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  "Joseph Fiennes on Risen and Retelling Jesus' "Unsettling" Story". Interview with Hannah Goodwyn, www1.cbn.com. May 24, 2016.

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• I've worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some natural abilities, but it's the technique that I've been learning from the best that keeps me going. I'm really honored to do it.

  Margaret Cho

  Taken, Thinking, Voice

  "Sing out, sister". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, seattle.gopride.com. 2016.

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• The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Names, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just did adore Daniel - Daniel Radcliffe, who I had worked with before "Harry Potter" and spent a long time telling all the producers they had to see him because I thought he was so terrific. And it's been sad thinking about it because of Alan Rickman.

  Maggie Smith

  Thinking, Long, Potters

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• When I first starting making beats, I didn't know samples were being used in any beats. I had no idea where producers were getting the real string sounds or the voices on their tracks. I knew nothing about loops or sampling off of records. So, by me knowing nothing about this it made me concentrate on my chords on the keyboard.

  Rahki

  Real, Knowing Nothing, Ideas

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out.

  Rahki

  Artist, Albums, Needs

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.

  Richard Patrick

  Gun, Kind, Speak

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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