“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.” MenLongMadeRememberNamesStarsLosesGoneTalentDirectorsSilentFinishedScreensProducersTitlesGreat Talent Author:Ernst Lubitsch
“What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.” WantYearsLongFilmThreeFoundHavensDirectProducersRight ThingThree Years Author:Grant Heslov
“The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWellsKindLongDoneDesireNaturalExampleProduceSucceedDirectorsHollywoodInstinctProducersBad TimesRenoir Author:Orson Welles
“So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.” LongCoursesProductsProducersCapitalistStandpoint Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist