Producers Quotes · Page 5

I never want to be the producer that I too often got.

— Clive Barker

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

— Kabir Bedi

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.

— Ludwig von Mises

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

— Norman Granz

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

— Olafur Eliasson

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

— Lindi Ortega

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

— Andrew Dice Clay

I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.

— Hansika Motwani

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

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

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

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

— Ednita Nazario

In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in…

— Justin Timberlake

Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write…

— Ian Axel

[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we…

— Nicole Kidman

When something is based on an iconic film, and we found this out with "The Producers" too, you've got to pay homage…

— Roger Bart

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joe Roth, who ended up becoming president of 20th Century Fox, he was the producer of Our Winning Season. This was one…

— P. J. Soles

People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in…

— Shelley Long

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was…

— Ted Shackelford

To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if…

— John Congleton

Although the great frustration about this [role] is the fact that there's one thing Maigret never does, and that's drive. He's always…

— Rowan Atkinson

For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the…

— Gene Kelly

The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after…

— Irving Thalberg

One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a…

— Rob Huebel

I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I]…

— Erykah Badu

We, as a band, are going to try to do a remix pack for some of our latest songs and do as…

— Christian Karlsson

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only…

— Adam Smith

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

— Terry Southern

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

— Lewis Mumford

As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.

— Guillermo del Toro

We are all consumers and should all be producers.

— Charles Lindbergh

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

— Oprah Winfrey

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

— Kevin Spacey

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

— Michael Keaton