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Producers don't really publicize movies. -- Rick McCallum
Producers are now employees, not creators. -- Marshall Herskovitz
Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism. -- Mike Johanns
I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers. -- George A. Romero
Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment. -- Max von Sydow
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all. -- Harold Prince
Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful. -- Ken Stott
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic. -- Lana Del Rey
The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it. -- Nathan Lane
'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it. -- Nathan Lane
Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah. -- James Pearse Connelly
Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off. -- Kellan Lutz
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another. -- Noel Gallagher
The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America. -- Ayn Rand
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. -- Herbert Hoover
Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies. -- Jaume Collet-Serra
I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess? -- Mario Cantone
What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened. -- Richard Kind
Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference. -- Oliver DeMille
Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap. -- Trevor Horn
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks. -- John Frankenheimer
Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory." -- Terry Gross
We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't. -- Tony Bennett
Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way. -- Amanda Plummer
I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella. -- Ester Dean
On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting this way and that and then something would set him off, Zero Mostel, say, in the movie that made Wilder a star, "The Producers." -- Gene Wilder
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. -- Julia Child
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. -- Paul Cezanne
The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are. -- Paula Abdul
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. -- Bela Lugosi
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. -- Christopher Lasch
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director. -- Steven Spielberg
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. -- T. S. Eliot
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on. -- Stephen Sondheim
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. -- Murray Rothbard
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. -- Marshall McLuhan
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
I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television. -- Esther Rolle
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right. -- Natalie Portman
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. -- Hedy Lamarr
I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role. -- Salma Hayek
Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life. -- RZA
I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. -- Bono
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. -- Ayn Rand
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. -- Babyface
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. -- Jim Rogers
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. -- Neal Barnard
I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States. -- Andrew Lau
There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines. -- Rocco DiSpirito
I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them. -- Mila Kunis
All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous. -- Patti LuPone
I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it. -- Bernard Cornwell
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. -- David Attenborough
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed. -- James Buchan
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. -- Jared Diamond
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure. -- Hjalmar Schacht
When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project. -- Eva Green
Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie. -- Robin Leach
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
The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place. -- Florence Welch
So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title. -- Marlo Thomas
I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
I can read a crowd pretty well. I know what to play and know how to keep it interesting for them and for myself as well. Most of the other DJs are more like producers so they become famous because they make hits and then they start DJ-ing. But I'm more from the other way around. -- Tiesto
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. -- Rivers Cuomo
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. -- Sean Hannity
Real movie producers aren't this nice. -- Joel Siegel
Real movie producers arent this nice. -- Joel Siegel
I don't like begging money from producers. -- David Byrne
Calling all dance music producers! I'm available. -- Kristin Chenoweth
I want to see more women as producers. -- Octavia Spencer
I want to give producers more financial security. -- Estelle Morris
I want to give producers more financial security. -- Estelle Morris
We are all consumers and should all be producers. -- Charles Lindbergh
I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood. -- Betty White
The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin. -- Stuart Price
The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer. -- Ludwig von Mises
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals. -- Novalis
Id love to see more women working as directors and producers. -- Ida Lupino
I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers. -- Ida Lupino
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them. -- Albert Bandura
Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about. -- Katherine Dunham
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad. -- Aaron Eckhart
TMM is among the best of low-cost gold producers with strong longevity. -- Scott Wright
Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film. -- Richard Donner
A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision. -- Reggie Watts
I am working with various music producers and hope to be releasing music. -- Olivia Stuck
My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years. -- Alexander McQueen
I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound. -- Victoria Justice
I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it. -- Michael Rapaport
Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible. -- David Guetta
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience. -- Michael Shermer
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate. -- Guillermo del Toro
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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare. -- John Crowley
Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. -- Imelda Staunton
India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts. -- Anurag Kashyap
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do. -- Eric Fellner
The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid. -- Mindy Cohn
We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers. -- Kevin Spacey
One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers. -- Barry Mann
In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years. -- Tom Vilsack
I haven't seen a lot of young producers who work the floor in a traditional way. -- Jim Dickinson
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. -- Babyface
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. -- Wendell Berry
The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats. -- Daniela Ruah
I like to work with different musicians and producers to change the feels of every release. -- Lindi Ortega
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers. -- Murray Rothbard
The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs. -- Kaskade
I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors. -- Peter Diamandis
I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me. -- Billy Corgan
I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all. -- Winona Ryder
If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. -- Donald E. Westlake
Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia. -- George Gilder
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. -- Sivamani
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. -- Harold Prince

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