Produce Quotes - Page 15

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.

The way I pick movies is, first, if the script is any good. Then, if the script is good, who else is in it, the director, the producer, all that. If you have all that, there's a chance the movie will be great. If the script isn't right, or the director or cast isn't right, you've got no shot in hell.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

I want to be remembered as one of the illest, youngest cats to do it successfully and to keep doing it successfully. My early story alone deserves to be told, because at 6 years-old I was discovered by one of the best producers of all time, Dr. Dre, and I went on tour at 6, and appeared on Snoop Dogg's album at the age of 7. And I'm still here. Nobody else has a story like that, and it has to end great.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

I was in a commercial when I was three. My godfather was a director and a producer of commercials. He took me in along with his kids and I couldn't remember my lines. I giggled my way through the commercial and they kept it.

I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That's the nature of being a producer.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. He just read it and didn't want to do it - that's it. There's a myth around that he said it's not filmable. But he never wanted to film it.

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

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

Producer Ed Pressman had a book about Diane Arbus - it's the only biography that exists - and there had been many Diane Arbus scripts. Many. I don't even know how many over the years. And it's sort of a cursed project, for lots of reasons. There's probably some pile somewhere of all these weird attempts, all these portraitures that can't get made.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.