Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Producers - Page 17

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.

The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.

Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

We called the head of CBS and said, 'We know how network television feels about musicals. Would you even consider doing 'Gypsy?'' He said, 'If I did say yes, you'd have to have a big movie star who does not do TV.' I told him that, in our fantasy world, we'd like Bette Midler. He said, 'Get Bette Midler, and you have an on-the-air commitment.'

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

I've always been in love with the stars and view the cosmos as the ultimate adventure.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

I'm tired of relying on someone to drive me around. I just want my freedom.

What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.

There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!

I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.

I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.

I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that. I use my work as a way to get all that other stuff out and experiment with feelings and ideas, and the forbidden. That's just part of my process, I think, to identify something forbidden. That's what lures me into wanting to do the work, write the story down.

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

Going out into the world, I do feel like a kid in a candy store.

I've always believed in expanding the definition of what a Marvel Studios movie could be.

When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I didn't want to have the memories of my experience tarnished in any way.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

Kanye is producing in the true sense of the word. 'Real Friends' was an idea started by me and Boi-1da. We passed it off to Kanye, and Kanye kind of stripped it down and had Havoc add some drums to it. Kanye had the vision. That's really true-school production.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

We take the suggestions people give us and build the best reality we can for them.

Every single human being can achieve a perfect vibrational balance between their positive and negative energy.

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.

In the States I got asked to do every TV show.

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

I probably did pack a lifetime's work into the 1980s.

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.

We make a lot of movies, and we make them fast.

My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case's unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company's legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial.

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

My designs are free-flowing in their approach, and I want to create an ambience of warmth and tranquility.

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story lead you to discovering who the character is in a natural way.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.

Not to age myself, but I remember vividly 'Schoolhouse Rock!' and entrust my grammar to it.

I didn't even think demographics until I got to ABC. They were the first to go for 18-to-49. But, at CBS, it was just, 'Let's get 'em in the tent.'

I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.

My kids have terrible taste.

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

How do I get it made? How do I get it seen? How do I get it in front of the people I want to serve?

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.