Producers Quotes · Page 28

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

— Alessandro Nivola

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million.…

— Zhang Yimou

In my experience as a record producer, the people who most get involved are the people from independent labels who feel they…

— Andy Gill

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you…

— Dustin Diamond

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a…

— Stephen Sondheim

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

— Bill Moyers

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus…

— LIZ

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

— David E. Kelley

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat…

— Pharrell Williams

I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit…

— John Cleese

Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And…

— Alice Waters

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he…

— Taylor Swift

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…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie.…

— John August

I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer,…

— Chazz Palminteri

I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was…

— Steve Martin

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah…

— James Pearse Connelly

Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and…

— Mike Johanns

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest…

— Bob Beauprez

I wrote and concepted 99% of the ideas for Crash Landing and we reached out to a lot of different popular producers…

— Kid Ink

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a…

— Ednita Nazario

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will…

— Henry James

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left…

— Sean Lennon

I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had…

— Drake

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose…

— Pauline Kael

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy…

— Moby

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going…

— Scott Cohen

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire…

— Garry Marshall

In my opinion, the BBC are one of the best producers of drama in the world, and it made me incredibly happy…

— Luke Pasqualino

My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

— Curtis Hanson

We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

— Abdallah Salem el-Badri

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

— Christopher Lasch

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start…

— Steve Albini

You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.

— Chukwudi Iwuji

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want…

— William Hung

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

I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Michael Buble

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 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