Producers Quotes

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now

When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with.

I had this producer who became a friend, named Lou [Stellato]. Maybe it was a budget thing, but he never wanted to do any retakes. The more I would have a mental breakdown on the air.

When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers,' the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got 'Wedding Crashers' partly because I was a Bond girl.

Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies.

Most cornmeal producers dont tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things.

The best part of being signed by a major label was having the support of a big company behind me and the ability to meet new artists and producers.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

I haven't seen a lot of young producers who work the floor in a traditional way.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.

Real movie producers arent this nice.

When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward.

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

I have to admit that I am not great at selecting music for CDs! I have a few personal favorites, and then I let my producer take it from there!

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.

I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

I wrote and concepted 99% of the ideas for Crash Landing and we reached out to a lot of different popular producers like Jahlil, KE, Kajmir Royale, Hit-Boy etc.

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.