Producers Quotes - Page 15

• Someday hopefully it won’t be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we’ve come…someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Men, Pigs, Special

  "'Women In Hollywood' draws stars". www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 7, 2008.

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• I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

  Skrillex

  Always Trying, Track, Chance

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

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• If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Independent, Thinking, Roots

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. May 3, 2002.

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• I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.

  Debby Ryan

  Brother, Vision, Helping

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• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

  J. Cole

  Song, Writing, Good Day

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• I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

  J. Cole

  Heart, Long, Hip Hop

  "J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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• I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

  Timbaland

  Kids, Sound, Keyboards

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

  Timbaland

  Keys, Hot, Want

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• Producers are now employees, not creators.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Employee, Creator

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

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• The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Entertainment, Forgotten, Activity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

  Barry Mann

  Records, Should, Songwriters

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• Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

  Ronnie Spector

  Years, California, Next Day

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• There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

  Gabrielle

  Book, Ideas, Black

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• Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Children, Overwhelmed, Married

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• Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Nba, Diversity, Would Be

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• The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

  Phil Ramone

  Directors, Records, World

  "Grammy-winning producer Phil Ramone dies at 79", www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

  Babyface

  Diamond In The Rough, Executives, Diamond

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• It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

  Steve Albini

  Band, Insult, Horrible

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• For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Machinery, Creator

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

  Channing Tatum

  Years, Two, Levels

  "Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Avid, America, Fiction

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.110, Random House

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• What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Giving, Wish

  John Stuart Mill (2007). “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Chaos, Social

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• It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Television, Tvs

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• I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

  Jack Lemmon

  Running, Quitting, Truck

  1986 In Newsweek, 5 May.

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