Producers Quotes

1. "I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It's the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show."
Author: Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje

2. "Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything."
Author: Agnes Bruckner

3. "New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money."
Author: Aleksandar Hemon

4. "I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American."
Author: Alessandro Nivola

5. "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."
Author: Amy Irving

6. "The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home."
Author: Anne Heche

7. "This book is like a supreme car which can drive the world to a new horizon. N.DAS Humans declared themselves masters of their own lives,producers of cities and history,and inventor of heaven.Antonio Negri[EMPIRE]"
Author: Antonio Negri

8. "One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers."
Author: Barry Mann

9. "I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten."
Author: Brian Dennehy

10. "What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time."
Author: Buck Henry

11. "Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years."
Author: Charles E. Wilson

12. "I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
Author: Conrad Veidt

13. "Oil men, like producers of other raw materials, could not continue to sell their products below cost...For prices to be raised, production had to be controlled, and to bring production under control, Ickes began with an all-out campaign against the "hot oiler,"...This bootleg oil was secretly siphoned off from pipelines, hidden in camouflaged tanks that were covered with weeds, moved about both in an intrcate network of secret pipelines and by trucks, and then smuggled across state borders at night."
Author: Daniel Yergin

14. "The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time."
Author: Debbie Stabenow

15. "In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't."
Author: Dick Van Dyke

16. "Blonde movie stars in the 1950s seem to have been pretty much divided between breathy bombshells (Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield) and slim, elegant swans (Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint). Producers didn't really know what to do with Judy Holliday, a brilliant, versatile actress who simply didn't fit into any easy category. Though she left behind a handful of delightful films, one can't help feeling a sense of waste that her gifts were not better handled by Hollywood (or, for that matter, by Broadway). Perhaps, like Lucille Ball, Judy Holliday would have blossomed with a really good sitcom; but, unlike Lucy, she never got one."
Author: Eve Golden

17. "In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do."
Author: Frank Knight

18. "I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema."
Author: Gael Garcia Bernal

19. "I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers."
Author: George A. Romero

20. "If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left unexploited, if they are going to encourage anxious, ambitious actors, directors, writers and producers to continue their assault on the English language by reducing the vocabularies of their characters to half a dozen words, with one colorful but overused Anglo-Saxon verb and one unbeautiful Anglo-Saxon noun covering just about every situation, then I would like to suggest that they stop and think about this: making millions is not the whole ball game, fellows. Pride of workmanship is worth more. Artistry is worth more."
Author: Gregory Peck

21. "On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
Author: Griffin Dunne

22. "Every Joshua need a Moses. Every Elisha needs an ElijahEvery Timothy need a Paul.Connect your potentials to their proof-producers,their activators and lubricants"
Author: Ikechukwu Joseph

23. "In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York."
Author: Jake Johnson

24. "If you net a profit, reward the "producers." Allocate a portion to innovation & future growth. Place a portion in cash reserves to weather storms."
Author: Jennifer Ritchie Payette

25. "I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page."
Author: Jermaine Dupri

26. "Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up."
Author: Jim Rogers

27. "Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound."
Author: Jon Landau

28. "Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages."
Author: Julia Child

29. "Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."
Author: Katherine Dunham

30. "Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't."
Author: Kathleen Turner

31. "In general, I don't feel artists should need producers."
Author: Kip Winger

32. "Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him."
Author: Leon Askin

33. "Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be."
Author: Lew Wasserman

34. "My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her."
Author: Mary Ann Mobley

35. "All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do."
Author: Matthew Ashford

36. "Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment."
Author: Max Von Sydow

37. "I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it."
Author: Michael Rapaport

38. "Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience."
Author: Michael Shermer

39. "The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid."
Author: Mindy Cohn

40. "I really like scripted dramas. My favorite show of all time would have to be 'Lost': I loved how the writers and producers were able to weave the different storylines together; and the acting in that show was incredible."
Author: Nick Jonas

41. "After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me."
Author: Persis Khambatta

42. "From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show."
Author: Randy West

43. "Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great."
Author: Randy West

44. "As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they are actors or writers or producers or directors, and they will tell you that they'd love to play a Bond baddie. I can go anywhere in the world and I am known; it put me on the international map."
Author: Robert Davi

45. "But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role."
Author: Sean Hayes

46. "My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Lucy Fisher were honored with the annual award."
Author: Sharon Lawrence

47. "My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers."
Author: Suriya

48. "In 1995, each cast at The Second City was made up of four men and two women. When it was suggested that they switch one of the companies to three men and three women, the producers and directors had the same panicked reaction. 'You can't do that. There won't be enough parts to go around. There won't be enough for the girls.' This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and have never had a head injury. We weren't doing _Death of a Salesman._ _We were making up the show ourselves. How could there not be enough parts?_ If everyone had something to contribute, there would be enough. The insulting implication, of course, was that the women wouldn't have any ideas."
Author: Tina Fey

49. "Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out."
Author: Tobin Bell

50. "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."
Author: William Hung

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