Producer Quotes

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

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

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

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

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

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

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

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!'

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.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

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

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

I'm thinking about a few weeks in Montreal to work with a producer I met there.

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.