Brian Grazer

I went to USC. I wasn't a rich kid or anything like that, so I had to get a scholarship. Went to…

— Brian Grazer

No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's…

— Brian Grazer

Where do I get the confidence to be different? A lot of it comes from curiosity. I spent years as a young…

— Brian Grazer

“I also realized that curiosity had saved my ass that Thursday afternoon. I’ve been curious as long as I can remember.”

— Brian Grazer

You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste…

— Brian Grazer

“But even when curiosity has gotten me in trouble, it has been interesting trouble. Curiosity”

— Brian Grazer

The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it…

— Brian Grazer

I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.

— Brian Grazer

I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure…

— Brian Grazer

I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I…

— Brian Grazer

Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and…

— Brian Grazer

In Hollywood, people tend to have the same sensibilities, the same taste and values, and I didn't want to spend my life…

— Brian Grazer

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the…

— Brian Grazer

“... the safest answer for any studio, or investor, or executive to give is no.”

— Brian Grazer

A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of…

— Brian Grazer

Curiosity at work isn't a matter of style. It's much more powerful than that. If you're the boss, and you manage by…

— Brian Grazer

When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am…

— Brian Grazer

They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that…

— Brian Grazer

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting…

— Brian Grazer

Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat…

— Brian Grazer

Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars…

— Brian Grazer

“I’d like to tell stories about the sheer joy of discovery that open-ended curiosity offers. That’s the kind of joy we have…

— Brian Grazer

A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses - it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the…

— Brian Grazer

I don't keep a list of people I want to talk to. It's organic. But I'd like to interview Tom Brady. Someday…

— Brian Grazer

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet…

— Brian Grazer