“You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.” IfsTwoShowsActorsWonderfulMinutesProducersByeBye Bye Author:Charlotte Rae
“The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.” PlayCharacterShowsHappensTvsDirectorsProducersTv ShowsComplementNotice Me Author:J.K. Simmons
“I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!” SaidShowsHomeSleepLaughingComedyCuttingMinutesProducersAfternoonMailOne Minute Author:Lev Yilmaz
“Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.” PeopleIfsWayWantMayIdeasShowsSeemsStrongNumbersWatchesWeekModernRight NowCurrentsProducersAlternativesNo IdeaPlatformsViewersModern Family Author:Steven Levitan
“In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.” PeopleIfsBookShowsBigsJobsGuyStageNew YorkFlyingProducersAgentsManagersChicago Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.” YearsShowsSawsProducersSharpness Author:June Lockhart
“I'm the producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," so I definitely have an exciting day job.” ShowsJobsExcitingProducersTonightJimmyDay Jobs Author:Josh Lieb
“The difficulty in working with someone on a show like Idol or X Factor is they have an idea of what they think is cool in their heads, and it's important as a producer to maintain control of the session and not let it get side-tracked or chase too many rabbits. But it's also important to let the artist feel like their opinion matters, so that balance is difficult.” ThinkingFeelsImportantIdeasMatterShowsArtistDifficultSidesOpinionBalanceDifficultyFactorsProducersIdolsSessionRabbits Author:Ryan Tedder
“The "executive producer" title either means that you're the person who created, or co-created, the show, or you're the person who's in charge of day-to-day operations. Whereas "producer" is often just a writing credit.” WritingMeanPersonsShowsCreditProducersTitlesOperationsExecutivesDay To Day Author:Mitchell Hurwitz
“Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidTwoWholeShowsUsedTurnsSpeakInterestingSituationMillionsCarInvolvedDirectorsCamerasBlindPhonesProducersPlanesFreakSpeakersDeafVery InterestingGet InvolvedMenusTwo Of UsBrailleInteresting Situations Author:Jack Jason
“The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.” MadeShowsHomeDecisionProducersHug Author:Anne Heche
“I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.” KindShowsBitsResponsibilityStyleTelevisionColorDirectorsComplicatedMediumsProducersVisualsTelevision ShowsPalettePredetermined Author:Jason Bateman