Producers Quotes - Page 16

• You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Directors, Rating

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.

  John Frankenheimer

  Cities, People, Office

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• But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

  John Frankenheimer

  Choices, Records, Lines

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• If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

  Peter Fonda

  Writing, Should Have, Ego

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• I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Moments, Screenplays, Developing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  New York, Stars, Suicidal

  "The Exchange: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Menachem Kaiser, www.newyorker.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Opportunity, Directors, Actors

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• Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

  Jerry Harrison

  Sound, Band, Records

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• I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Kids, Rocks, 80s And 90s

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• Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.

  Trevor Horn

  Artist, Authority, Thread

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• I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

  William Hung

  People, Laughing, Want

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• I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

  Amy Irving

  Pain, Believe, Passion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

  Louise Jameson

  Political, Reason, Wells

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• Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Moving, Actors, Want

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• I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Athlete, Jumping, Ego

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Chronicle' Star Michael B. Jordan" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. February 01, 2012.

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• Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.

  Mike Johanns

  Issues, Terrorism, Educated

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

  Bill Kurtis

  Want, Too Much, Bundles

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

  David E. Kelley

  Chemistry, Plans, Executives

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• In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

  Frank Knight

  Running, Long, Giving

  Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.191, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Writing, People, Albums

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• What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Sound, Never Change, Changed

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

  Alessandro Nivola

  Gone, Film

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• The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Opportunity, Female Writers, Males

  "This much I know: Chris O'Dowd". Interview with Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Doe, Mystery, Knows

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• I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Cameras, Directors, Exciting

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