Producer Quotes - page 2

Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe. (Plato)
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer. View quote
Karl Marx
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. View quote
C. S. Lewis
When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written. View quote
Marc Guggenheim
When we're shooting, I'm in producer mode. View quote
Bryan Cogman
I have three lives: actress, model, producer. Sometimes I'm aware that there's a fourth life, which is somewhat neglected, which is living a bit. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors. View quote
Atom Egoyan
As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist. View quote
Armin van Buuren
Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ. (David Guetta)
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally. View quote
Roger Corman
I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record. View quote
Reba McEntire
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. View quote
Terry Southern
A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting. View quote
Alan Ladd
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world. View quote
Ann Macbeth
So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less! View quote
Ajay Devgan
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken. View quote
Ajay Devgan
I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer. View quote
Al Walser
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point? View quote
Branford Marsalis
I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed. (Britt Ekland)
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. View quote
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop. View quote
Cynthia Weil
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living. View quote
Carter Burwell