Top 1200 Executive Producer Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'
My uncle is an actor, my dad is a producer, so they asked me if I was interested, and I was like, 'How can someone act in front of so many people with lights and emote.'
I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.
A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.
I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.
It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business
I'm known for taking a long time getting music out, partially, my schedule is bananas, I'm only human, and then on top of that, I'm a one-man-producer.
I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.
Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.
Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.
The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
I have never said no to a film. Except once, 20-25 years ago, when a producer from Madras wanted me to play Jeetendra's father.
I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic scale and a large audience and a lot of interest.
A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.
I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see.
Any MP who deals with immigration a huge amount, which I do, is going to worry about giving powers to the executive to change immigration law without scrutiny.
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
As a producer, it's not unusual to find yourself on the field, backstage, often with a camera crew and living with constant anxiety of accidentally ending up in the shot.
At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.
When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
In fact, my uncle did his first full play at the Westin Playhouse because my dad put in a good word for him to the producer.
The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch.
I love being in front of the camera but I love the fact that I have more control as a producer.
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.
My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.
I actually chose to do 'X-Men' because I'm working with Simon Kinberg, who's also a first-time filmmaker who I met on 'The Martian' and is an incredible writer and producer.
But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.
It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
I've always relied on a big producer and big studios. I had budgets that were ridiculous.
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.
The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
For years when we went into companies to discuss how we could help their leaders be most effective, we heard people say, "Our leaders need to develop executive presence."
As Governor I, and my office, have the responsibility to appoint members to various boards and commissions; this executive order ensures that we will no longer appoint registered lobbyists to those positions.
I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.
I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.
Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot.
Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so rewarding. I got to be involved with the writing, the casting.
One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.
Things like Digg, Twitter, etc., are really interesting because they remove the idea of the all-mighty producer and puts tools into the hands of everybody.
We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.
The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.
I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear that you not gonna make it.
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer
I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't actually see that as my job. It's why my business cards say 'storyteller.'
I don't use producers, I am the producer. I use an engineer as a tool, vicariously.
