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When you're your own producer, you do the most ridiculous, insane things.
The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.
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.
The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.
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.
If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?
We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot.
I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.
Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?
I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.
Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?
I'm a producer ... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
It can really vary from movie to movie what the producer's role is and there are all kinds of producers. There are line producers who do a lot of the nuts and bolts work on the set.
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
The line between producers, songwriters, and remixers is so thin.
My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.
I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.
The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.
I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.
As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.
My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.
The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.
I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.
I love producing, I love bringing things together.
A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.
The film makers are the true movie stars.
As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.
Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.
No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.
I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists.
You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.
Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'
Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.
We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.
I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.
In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.
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'.
When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.
Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.
I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
I'm a producer, writer, director. I'm putting everything together very fast, and I'm strong and focused on making the next film as fast as possible. From one film to the other, I'm getting better. I'm learning - that's my style.
I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.
You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.
I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.
There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.
For the last five years I've been in the production business.
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.
We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.
There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.
I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.
The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.
Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.
I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.
Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.
Cinematographers couldn
The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.
You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.
My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.
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.
When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!
Producers don't really publicize movies.
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.
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.
If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.
The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.
Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
I'm more interested in producing than acting.
I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.
Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.
Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.
Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.
When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.
The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.
I'm an actor. I love to create.
I spend a lot of time talking to young and emerging producers on Twitter, feeding back thoughts and encouraging them.
I would like to work with a great producer who I haven't met yet. I'm not sure who he is, but I'm looking for someone to take me to the next level.
Are you a consumer or producer?
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.
I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.