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Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. -- David E. Kelley
Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television. -- Dylan McDermott
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances. -- Andrew Stanton
I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing! -- Chandler Riggs
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. -- Ryan Reynolds
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host. -- Stephen Colbert
A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future. -- Cierra Ramirez
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility. -- Carol Leifer
The writers on my team and the producers and executive producer should be called talent. We anchor four hours on Saturday and three on Sunday. How they do that astonishes me. -- Poppy Harlow
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright? -- Morgan Freeman
As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color. -- Lesli Linka Glatter
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black. -- Gabrielle Union
I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a TV writer. I had the executive producer title. I was running the room. -- Jill Soloway
Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays. -- Danny Meyer
It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right? -- Josh Gad
When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies. -- Louis Leterrier
I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs. -- Sherwood Schwartz
I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans. -- Robbie Coltraine
When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of 'The Vampire Diaries' where Tyler is the first successful hybrid that's made. -- Michael Trevino
When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing up on set, making sure I know my lines and making sure I know what I'm bringing to the character. When I'm a creator and executive producer, I have to worry about the whole thing. -- Paula Garces
Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world. -- Nigel Lythgoe
Well, the 'Giuliana & Bill' show is a little bit different because Giuliana and I are the executive producers of the show, so certainly we have a lot of control and we have total, I guess if we wanted to, editing power, but I will say, in the seven seasons we've done the show, we've never used our executive producer powers to cut something out. -- Bill Rancic
My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer. -- Curtis Hanson
Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out. -- Rahki
What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you. -- Emma Donoghue
To be an author, and an executive producer, and a host, and I don't even know, I mean I actually have a resume now, which is pretty cool. -- Sophia Amoruso
One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'. -- Shirley Temple
[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that's Mark Burnett and that's the way it's going to be. -- Reince Priebus
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black. -- Gabrielle Union
On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing. -- Lesli Linka Glatter
The "executive producer" title either means that you're the person who created, or co-created, the show, or you're the person who's in charge of day-to-day operations. Whereas "producer" is often just a writing credit. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless. -- Rick McCallum

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