“As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.” IfsMadeEndsFilmResponsibilityCreativeExcitingProducersThe End Of The DayWorking It Author:Teresa Palmer
“I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.” HelpingDreamAmericaFilmArtistVisionCreativeWeekTeamAchieveCastsProducersThirtyDesignerCaptainsSupportiveQualifiedSculptorsI Had A DreamPreps Author:Joe Johnston
“Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.” KnowsKnow HowCreativeIssuesSellingProducersWorking ItControl IssuesSelling Something Author:Scott Cohen
“Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.” WantActingCreativeProducers Author:Jason Gann
“I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.” PeopleWantWritingYearsIdeasSeemsMovingNextInterestCreativeWrittenPositionProjectsScriptsCome UpCreditProducersExecutivesInvolvementOutlines Author:Stan Lee
“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.” PeopleThinkingCreativeFeetMissingUnderstoodProducersCampsCreative People Author:Kevin Spacey
“I think I'm an extremely conscientious producer and now equally as a director and it gives me the opportunity to look at the entire movie and really allow the movie to be the creative vision of the actors, the writer and myself, because I'm in charge of it from a producer and a director point of view.” ThinkingGivingLooksActorsOpportunityViewsVisionCreativeDirectorsGive MePoint Of ViewProducersCreative Vision Author:Tony Krantz
“What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people in the business realize that. It's not about that. Yeah, we all want to be successful, but we all just want to create and we want to tell the stories. We want to continue creating the opportunities to be able to continue doing what we love. So, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win-win for everybody to be able to make these independent films.” PeopleWantFeelsEndsStoriesAbleFilmArtistActorsOpportunityWinningRealizingCreativeSuccessfulCreatingIndependentYeahFinancialActressesProducersBeing SuccessfulThe End Of The DayCreative PeopleIndependent FilmWin WinFinancial SuccessActors And Actresses Author:Jennifer Lopez
“Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.” ActorsVoiceClassAudienceCreativeComedyFrontsComfortablePerformancesTheaterBackgroundsProducersFearlessPerformingCompetentHandyStand Up ComedySelf ConfidentLive PerformanceLive TheaterPerforming Live Author:Rob Paulsen
“To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained, but they still need advice about producers and collaborations and single choice. They need an army and a perspective and creative friction, because nobody has all the ideas.” NeedsStillsIdeasSelfArtistChoicesCreativeRecordsSeeingAdvicePerspectiveArmyStrategyStudiosProducersCollaborationThrowingFrictionSelf Contained Author:Tom Corson
“Being producer you're still going to have to sell somebody who's going to give you the money on the idea and everything like that. But it does give you a little bit more control if you're thinking in that creative process; it gives you more control to tell the story you want to tell rather than sort of just reading a script that somebody else wrote and says, "Yes, please, you can hire me for this job." So it's a little bit more hands-on, a little bit more closer to the heart.” IfsThinkingWantGivingHeartLittlesDoeStillsIdeasStoriesHandsJobsReadingBitsProcessCreativePleaseLittle BitSellsScriptsProducersCreative Process Author:Mekhi Phifer
“If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?” IfsFirstsCreativeDirectorsPartnersProducers Author:Garry Marshall
“Writing is like that. You have to have some basic creative spark, and then, if you have that, I feel like you can learn the production side of it. You can learn how to be a good producer. And I guess it does take a certain balance of those two skills in your head to be a successful showrunner.” IfsFeelsWritingDoeTwoCertainSidesCreativeSuccessfulLike YouBalanceSkillsProductionsProducersSparksCreative Spark Author:Ronald D. Moore
“My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.” RolesCreativeProducersMaintainingTruthfulness Author:Jeffrey Donovan
“And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that.” PeopleWritingEnoughRealityActorsBitsInterestingCreativeWrittenCarIndustryDirectorsProducersArtisticParksStagnationCreative ArtCar Parks Author:Josh Lawson
“I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.” PeopleCreativeTalentBandCapacityProducersEndeavorSmarterThumbsGreat Talent Author:Malik Yoba
“I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.” ForceBehindsCreativeFocusTelevisionGoes OnDirectorsSkillsProducersFeaturesComes And Goes Author:Eric Balfour