Producer Quotes · Page 8

When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.

— Bo Derek

“When the tools of production are available to everyone, everyone becomes a producer.”

— Chris Anderson

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.

— Rob Paulsen

I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things.

— Jessica Alba

You see, I believe a producer's job today is as important as that of a director.

— Suniel Shetty

Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.

— Jimmy Iovine

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

— Dominick Dunne

As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing.

— Guillermo del Toro

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

As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like... Forever.

— Nina Jacobson

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter…

— L.A. Reid

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

— Sol LeWitt

I brought in producer Johan Carlsson [Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida] and asked, "Can you make this better?" And he did.

— Michael Buble

I mean, I'd like to work with everybody but my dream, as far as a producer would be Timbaland.

— Snow Tha Product

Being a producer is tough. They have to go through so much - dates, money, and release. It's quite crazy.

— Javed Jaffrey

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

— Hilary Swank

When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house…

— Mahesh Babu

I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and…

— Abi Morgan

Every song that is a Hopsin song, I 100 percent made it. Nobody helped me. There was no producer to say, 'Hey,…

— Hopsin

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator,…

— Quincy Jones

My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room,…

— Chris Messina

I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in…

— Mark Ronson

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to…

— Laura Ziskin

The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In…

— Carolyn Jones

I think it is a wonderful process of transformation from an actress to a producer.

— Anushka Sharma

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

— Estelle

I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.

— Al Jourgensen

I started out as an artist, but I've always wanted to be a writer and producer.

— Teddy Geiger

In France I became something that I'd never been before: a record producer.

— Haim Saban

Benzino has a long, credible history as a rapper and as a producer.

— Dave Itzkoff

To me, as a producer, I always want something to set stuff apart.

— Finneas

All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.

— Cole Porter

My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.

— Farah Khan

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

— Nile Rodgers

I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role.

— James Bobin

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

— Griffin Dunne

Lance Barrow's a great producer and we work together exceptionally well.

— Jim Nantz

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

— Kevin Gates

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh…

— Brandon Flowers

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will…

— Linda Perry