Producers Quotes - Page 13

• As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

  Roger Corman

  Stronger, Directors, Littles

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• When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Children, Self, Parent

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• I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

  Ann Miller

  Girl, Party, Party Girl

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• When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.

  Duff McDonald

  Cost, Banking, Way

  Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken.

  Dan Mathews

  Stars, Animal, Play

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• I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

  Rod Coronado

  Animal, Thinking, Appreciate

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• It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.

  Marion Nestle

  People, Cost, Incentives

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• Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

  Julius Lester

  Art, Sound, Radio

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• Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

  Jerry Harrison

  Artist, Svengali, Sound

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• What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.

  Jerry Harrison

  Nice, Different, Dice

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• Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

  Roger Corman

  Giving, Directors, Film

  Roger Corman, J. Philip Di Franco, Karyn G. Browne (1979). “The Movie World of Roger Corman”, Chelsea House

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• I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak the same language as your bandmates and the producer, rather than just talking drums.

  Matt Cameron

  Thinking, Talking, Important

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• The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

  William Hartnell

  Running, Doctors, Years

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• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Want, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and counselors who wanted nothing to do with my ass during school were wanting to kiss it. They'd be interviewed by a newspaper of magazine and their tone would change. 'Oh yes, I knew Greg Noll. He was in my class. Fine, upstanding young man.' What bullshit.

  Greg Noll

  Teacher, School, Kissing

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• It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Taught, Economic, Economy

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 746), 1946.

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• Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Long, Sitting, Stores

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

  Norman Granz

  Artist, Genuine, Function

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• Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.

  Bennie Maupin

  Determination, Passion, Persistence

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• Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

  Soundarya

  Dad, Science, College

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• The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

  Jessica Zafra

  Stupid, People, Pay

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Piracy often reflects market failures on the part of producers rather than moral failures on the part of consumers.

  Henry Jenkins

  Moral, Market Failure, Consumers

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• So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Way, Reason

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Commodity, Refrigerators

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• He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed to play that then the way that a Hollywood producer would expect it to be played. Whether it was that or the posthorn solo from Mahler's Symphony No. 3, he would expect that to be played in the way that Leonard Bernstein wanted to hear it. In retrospect, I think it was a sensational way to teach this particular group of students. By the time you graduated you could absolutely read anything with any trumpet.

  Manny Laureano

  Thinking, Play, Symphony

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