Producers Quotes - Page 3

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

We are all consumers and should all be producers.

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.

I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level

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

As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, 'Would you like to come and meet him?' I'm like, 'Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?'

I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

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

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.

I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.

Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.

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.