A Quote by Alessandro Nivola

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

Alessandro Nivola

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Acting All Day Antidote Day Endless Gazing Long Navel Navel Gazing Obsession Opposed Practical Problem Problem Solving Producing Self Solving

Quote Author

Alessandro Nivola
American - Actor
Born: June 28, 1972

There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day.

Sandra Bullock

When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.

Anne Sweeney

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

Francois Mitterrand

I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.

Trudie Styler

Producing is a wonderful foil to being an actor: acting being largely about getting out of my head, being present, a little irresponsible, whilst producing is the polar opposite. You need other players to act; you can't act in a void, but producing is about making something out of nothing - conjuring a thought or an idea into reality.

Juliet Rylance

You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I'm producing a film, I really... I mean I like editing, but all the other crap, the color mixing and... it's all a grind. And so as a result I cut back producing the number of films I was producing.

John C. McGinley

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.

Alice Walker

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Kim Cattrall

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.

Ralph Macchio

I try not to be super self-referential about my work because it becomes like navel gazing at a certain point.

James Ransone

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

Peter Billingsley

Because of climate changes, it's not just a question of producing energy. It's a question of producing energy in a way that we can live with in the long term. If you look at the available pieces, from conservation to nuclear, solar, whatever, and you put them all together, we can't do it.

George M. Whitesides

There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite film in Pakistan, dealing with Urdu and Punjabi dialogue with an English-speaking editor and all the difficulties in recording, editing and clearing so many music tracks.