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“What's interesting in scripted TV is different than what's interesting in reality TV. Each of their departments have their development process where they package things and put together the writers and put together the producers and the different elements and develop the projects. By the time you get to a network or to a studio, you're able to say this is the project, here's who the producer is, sometimes even here's who the star is, here's who the writer is. It's a well-developed project by the time it gets to the studios.”

Different Sometimes Reality Together Interesting Producers

Author:Dawn Ostroff

“The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.”

People Film Producers

Author:Alex Garland

“What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.”

Thinking Film Program Assuming Complaining Producers Latino Hispanic

Author:Eva Longoria

“I was in a commercial when I was three. My godfather was a director and a producer of commercials. He took me in along with his kids and I couldn't remember my lines. I giggled my way through the commercial and they kept it.”

Kids Remember Producers My Way

Author:A Fine Frenzy

“A producer came to me about doing a memoir, and at first I thought, "Well, it's a little bland." But then I realized that almost everything that's happened to me was the result of being in the right place at the right time. And I thought "Well, luck has a lot to do with it," so I wrote it from that perspective.”

Perspective Luck I Realized Memoir Producers Right Time

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.”

Lucky Producers Now And Then

Author:George Carlin

“We were discovered by Don Fury; he was the first record producer who discovered us and essentially plucked us out of the rough. But I think in another way, we were discovered when we discovered each other, right before we started high school. We were 12 and 13. I don't want to speak for Justin Beck, but that's a big moment, linking up with your foil for the first time. Glassjaw definitely changed my life in the biggest way possible.”

Thinking Moments School Speak Changed High School First Time Producers Rough Fury Changed My Life

Author:Daryl Palumbo

“We as producers need to keep an eye on things and make sure we're doing great stuff, which is sometimes easy to do because of the talent we have, and sometimes not so easy.”

Sometimes Eye Easy Talent Producers

Author:Brad Lewis

“One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.”

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Author:Brad Lewis

“There are many actresses that are working longer, because until you change the playing field and make it economically stronger for women, it's very difficult to say no to somebody when that's your only gig. If you're a producer, or if you have more power, you're going to be in a position to know that if you burn that bridge, there'll still be this bridge open. But still - when people ask me 'do you think your politics have decreased your chances of working, I say: 'In Hollywood, most of the prejudice has to do with if you're old or fat.' Power can't forgive that".”

People Thinking Difficult Chance Prejudice Stronger Forgiving Producers Ask Me

Author:Susan Sarandon

“What would seem like an innocuous meat tenderizer turned out to be the biggest fear of every PA and producer - everyone on set. You know, it's dangerous, because you're running around and you're taking close swings at people with something that really could kill them. It's not like you have a gun with no bullets that you're doing cinematically. You actually have a weapon that you're swinging at people.”

People Running Dangerous Like You Gun Producers

Author:Selma Blair

“Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?”

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Author:Padma Lakshmi

“My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.”

Records Ambition Late My Friends Producers My Ambition

Author:Jon Landau

“Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.”

Has Beens Life Is Song Sound Voice Records Let Me Albums Singers Producers Arrangements Emphasis Franklin

Author:Jon Landau

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

“When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.”

Character Voice Week Crazy Huge Impression Producers Sections Rehearsal Loops Impersonate

Book:Too Fat to Fish

Source: Too Fat to Fish

“The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.”

Development Citizens Historical Workers Producers Consumers Transformed Clients

Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.”

War Action Actors Stars Stuff Directors Producers Related Sci Fi

Author:Queen Latifah

“It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.”

Knows Happens Process Company Records Battle Performances Disappear Producers Digital Engineers Volume Nobody Knows Dynamics Record Companies

Author:Geddy Lee

“I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.”

People Lucky Directors Producers Tickets

Author:Antonio Banderas

“Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.”

Needs Should Shows Gone Willing Tvs Industry Pops Disappear Producers Cds Music Industry Accommodate Live Music

Author:Leona Lewis

“I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.”

Wanted Film Television Producers Film And Television

Author:Tyra Banks

“I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.”

Years Wanted Voice Perfect Ready Six Singing Percent Presses Studios Producers

Author:Tyra Banks

“Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.”

Giving Together Song Space Four Give Me Track Albums Coaches Producers Working Together Collaboration Vocal My Space

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.”

Ifs Imagination Enemy Birth Producers Accents Betrayed

Author:Bela Lugosi

“It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.”

Years Play Film Roles Type Producers Convince

Author:Bela Lugosi

“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.”

Knows Helping Guy Nice Sells Studios Producers Shirts Shirt Off

Author:Kellan Lutz

“It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.”

Moments Comedy Worst Stage Producers Worst Moments

Author:Paul Lynde

“Consumers now have a voice. And the fact that consumers can be creators, producers and distributors means they can push back against brands to punish them for their socially irresponsible behavior or reward them for their responsible behavior.”

Mean Facts Voice Behavior Responsible Rewards Creator Producers Brands Consumers Irresponsible Distributors

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“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.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“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.”

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Author:Neal Barnard

“After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.”

Shows Wanted Turns Hollywood Appearance Producers Tonight Sitcom

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.”

Want Said Play Song Records Singing Producers Hey Jerry Jackie

Author:Reba McEntire

“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.”

Knows Want Business Producers Curves Graphs

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.”

Years Photographer Producers

Author:Alexander McQueen

“I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.”

Feels Shows Able Shots Producers Idols Single Women

Author:Nicki Minaj

“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.”

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Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.”

Thinking I Can Talking Musician Ghost Producers Brian Talking Heads

Author:Moby

“I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.”

Thinking Done Play Song Attention Knowing Instruments Musical Focused Producers Not Knowing Hook Musicianship Focused Attention

Author:Moby

“I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.”

Knows Real Actors Directors Producers Preparation Movie Movie Director

Author:Liam Neeson

“I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.”

Men Years Kind Lasts Five Fans Willing Tvs Mad Series Storytelling Producers Optimistic Wire Mad Men Tv Series Sopranos

Author:Jo Nesbo

“The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.”

Nations Discovery Europe Claims Oil Billions Producers Coast Barrels Cement Deposits Norway New Discoveries

Author:Bob Beauprez

“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

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Book:The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories

Source: The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories

“I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.”

Mean Form Certain Social Situation Conditions Musician Producers Interaction Autism Being Different Singer Songwriters Syndromes Social Interaction Social Service Aspergers Interacting With Others Asperger's Syndrome

Author:Gary Numan

“What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.”

Country Government Taxes Percent Paid Majority Oil Accepted Producers Fairness

Author:Olusegun Obasanjo

“If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”

“Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.”

Long Energy Nations Known Proud Producers Distinction Texas Innovators

Author:Rick Perry

“After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.”

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Author:Busy Philipps

“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.”

Knows Stuff Bits Newspapers Producers Cups Tea Cups Of Tea Lackeys

Author:Karl Pilkington

“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.”

People Stuff Saws Directors Scared Treated Producers Stood Up Abusive

Author:Natalie Portman

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