Producers Quotes - Page 17

• If no producer, no movie.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Ifs

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• Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Intuition, Actors, Scripts

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• To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Stars, Jobs, Real

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• You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Stars, Men, Names

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

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• In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

  Trevor Nunn

  Integrity, Limits, Artistic

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• Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

  Amanda Plummer

  Mean, Directors, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you.' That was even more great to hear.

  Cat Power

  Proud, Needed, Know How

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.

  Sasha Pieterse

  Country, Writing, Years

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

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• Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.

  Paula Patton

  Light, Color, People

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

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• As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.

  Teresa Palmer

  Responsibility, Creative, The End Of The Day

  "Teresa Palmer Producing A 'Very Angelina Jolie'-Like Project About Big Pharma; DreamWorks in Talks" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. July 11, 2011.

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• A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

  Tom Perrotta

  Life Changing, School, Progress

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• You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

  Colin Quinn

  Broadway, Pay, Making Money

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• You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

  Charlotte Rae

  Two, Bye, Actors

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

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• I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

  L.A. Reid

  Artist, Thinking, Trying

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• It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

  Sam Raimi

  Fun, Lovely, I Can

  Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 21, 2007.

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• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  Octavia Spencer

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

  Danny Strong

  Careers, Stronger, Actors

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• Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

  Imelda Staunton

  Imagination, Agents, Boxes

  "I'm not in that league" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2004.

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• I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

  Jeff Lynne

  Thinking, Tree, Age

  "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

  K. D. Lang

  Always Trying, Perfect, Vocal

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• The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.

  J.K. Simmons

  Character, Tv Shows, Play

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

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• I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

  Matt Stone

  Hollywood, Lame, Happens

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

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• I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Couple, Fun, Careers

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• So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

  Rupert Sanders

  People, Tables, Littles

  "Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Directors, Credit

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