My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.
I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer. "
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. " ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"
On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
Being in L. A. , it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together. . . It's been a really cool experience.
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.
[Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writerdirector] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!"
I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.
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.
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.
We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.
I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.