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A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything. -- Nirav Sanchaniya
Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. -- Alfred Marshall
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species." -- Alfred Marshall
At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records. -- Jim Messina
Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another. -- Soundarya
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. -- Paul Cezanne
I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. -- Afrojack
I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact. -- Mithun Chakraborty
Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors. -- Bernie Mac
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society. -- Jackie Chan
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
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.' -- Quincy Jones
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. -- Marianne Williamson
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. -- John Malkovich
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. -- Armin van Buuren
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. -- Adam Smith
There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap. -- J. Cole
If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible. -- Afrojack
A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background. -- Giorgio Moroder
You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it. -- Waylon Jennings
I've never had to fight for a role. Call it my ego or my self-respect, but I won't pick up the phone and call a producer and fight or ask for a role. That's not me. I've always got the best, and my work speaks for itself. -- Sonakshi Sinha
I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors. -- Najib Razak
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? -- Orson Welles
Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is. -- Akshay Kumar
I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me. -- J. Cole
I've struggled a lot to get where I am. I initially got rejected by every producer. But no complaints. I enjoyed each and every moment of the struggle. My first break came in 1997 from Krishna Vamsi and then Puri Jagannadh, who is my closest friend. I owe everything I am to him. Our careers have evolved simultaneously. -- Ravi Teja
When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone. -- Mahesh Babu
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that. -- J. Cole
One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age. -- Nick Cannon
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. -- Orson Welles
If no producer, no movie. -- Dino De Laurentiis
I'm a human entropy producer. -- Dean Kamen
My son is a hip-hop producer. -- Quincy Jones
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. -- Marianne Williamson
After three albums, you should shoot your producer -- Jimmy Iovine
I'm just a musician and a record producer. -- Quincy Jones
Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story -- Deepak Chopra
Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. -- Nina Jacobson
I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver. -- Nile Rodgers
I had set a goal of being a producer by 25. -- Cameron Mackintosh
I realized than an author cannot also be a producer. -- Sergio Leone
Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London. -- Estelle
There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer. -- Mick Jagger
Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. -- W. Edwards Deming
Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer. -- Alan Parsons
I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer. -- Rachel Griffiths
I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor. -- Kabir Bedi
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. -- Olafur Eliasson
I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer. -- Tyra Banks
I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show. -- Trishelle Cannatella
To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term. -- J. Robbins
I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever. -- Lauren Shuler Donner
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience. -- Damian Lewis
Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king. -- John Waters
I never want to be the producer that I too often got. -- Clive Barker
I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer. -- Rob Paulsen
Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion. -- ABC
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. -- Phil Ramone
Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs. -- Mark Hoppus
The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer. -- Rick McCallum
When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone. -- Andrew Dice Clay
The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer. -- W. Edwards Deming
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director. -- Charles Durning
All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer. -- Cole Porter
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. -- Mel Brooks
I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things. -- Jessica Alba
As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems. -- Russell Brand
Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression. -- Riteish Deshmukh
A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting -- Alan Ladd
I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired. -- Peter Billingsley
If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer. -- Mark Romanek
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire. -- Norman Granz
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. -- Dane Cook
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer... -- Lewis Mumford
I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer. -- Josh Silver
Everytime you put an album out with any producer you do the same thing. -- RZA
Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer. -- Pierre Omidyar
My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets. -- Cassandra Clare
On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me. -- Catherine Deneuve
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. -- Lewis Mumford
A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music. -- Kevin Gates
Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs -- Shelley Duvall
If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't. -- Noam Chomsky
I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together. -- Marilu Henner
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. -- Fred Allen
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. -- Wayne Dyer
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. -- Wayne Dyer
The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened. -- Robin Sharma
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. -- Norman Lear
As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts. -- Anurag Kashyap
The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around. -- Graham King
The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished. -- Sheryl Crow
One of the great things is, you're never a producer unless you're making a movie. -- Rick McCallum
I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on. -- Dino De Laurentiis
I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer. -- Al Walser
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators. -- Sol LeWitt
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken. -- Ajay Devgan
The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is. -- Matt Nix
When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project. -- Joseph McGinty Nichol
As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them. -- Eric Bachmann
I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools. -- Michael Gira
I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic. -- Jack Lemmon
I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. -- Griffin Dunne
Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win! -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. -- Orson Scott Card
It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning. -- Johnny Depp
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening. -- Clarissa Ward
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally. -- Roger Corman
I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama. -- Jackie Chan
My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer. -- Troian Bellisario
I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director. -- Grant Heslov
Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video. -- Mike Judge
For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. -- Terry Southern

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