I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.
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.
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
I brought the music out to L. A. , and the producer Tommy LaPuma heard it and he said - "Man, I love it. Let's do it. Let's record it. " I said, "Okay, where's the band?" He said, "We don't have a band. We want it to sound exactly like your demo. " I said, "Well, I played all the instruments on the demo. " You do that when you're making demos. You got your guitar, you got your sax. He said, "Well, I want it to sound just like that, so get all your instruments out here. " So I ended up playing all the instruments.
What is happening now is that producers are trying to figure out new ways to distribute that content.
Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how they don't have the power. No one has the power. So, you know, producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.
I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation. . . It was not my aim.
On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.
I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the. . . everyday.
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.
I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.
The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.
Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.