Quotes of Producer - somelinesforyou

“ It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game. ”

- Frank McKinney Hubbard

“ Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. ”

- Fred Allen

“ A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. ”

- Bill Moyers

“ In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. ”

- Louis Mumford

“ Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors. ”

- Bernie Mac

“ I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers. ”

- Ann Miller

“ I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic. ”

- Jack Lemmon

“ I wrote a thing for myself called A Short History of The Truman Show about how it all came to be, and who Christof was I wrote it as if it were a press release from the show. ”

- Peter Weir

“ I told the crew before we started, 'Look, anybody who can give me a suggestion, I'll consider it.' Anybody except the producer, that is. I won't even listen to him! ”

- Gene Fowler Jr.

“ The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Time is the author of authors. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators, God tailor and god mercer. ”

- Philip Massinger

“ I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. ”

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

“ I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. ”

- Ray Kurzweil

“ Call me the author. ”

- Joan Didion

“ In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. ”

- Jacques Barzun

“ Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer. ”

- Katharine Whitehorn

“ Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. ”

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“ We need a value system that will allow us to fulfill our essential human and humane tasks to be producers, to be providers and to be protectors. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ 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

“ You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. ”

- Fred Allen

“ Good design is a form of respect - on the part of the producer for the person who will eventually spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product. ”

- David Brown

“ I'm not going with some big time producer who takes over completely and I'm just a sideman. I wouldn't fancy that really. ”

- Jack Bruce

“ I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it. ”

- Tucker Carlson

“ As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally. ”

- Roger Corman

“ The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness… an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things. ”

- James Darren
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