Producers Quotes

The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release.

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

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

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.

I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.

Producers are now employees, not creators.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.

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?

My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.

Evil or not, the recording industry kept Auto-Tune on the down-low. Cher's producer forced Auto-Tune to jump suddenly from one pitch to the next.

I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

It can really vary from movie to movie what the producer's role is and there are all kinds of producers. There are line producers who do a lot of the nuts and bolts work on the set.

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

Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I want to see more women as producers.

I am working with various music producers and hope to be releasing music.

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

I always tell the producers, if I can't get the girl at the end of the picture, at least give me more money.

My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.

The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.