Top 325 Producing Quotes

After ‘Grahan,’ you’d be nuts to think I’d try producing again!
Jackie Shroff
Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there’s the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new worlds from all-night coding and caffeine abuse, and finally, the grand finale: immense wealth and secular sainthood. Let’s call it the Jobs Narrative.
Kate Crawford
If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.
Eliyahu Goldratt
I’m mad keen on recycling because I’m worried about the next generation and where all this waste we’re producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.
Cherie Lunghi
I was never really a DJ... I just kinda figured it all

I was never really a DJ… I just kinda figured it all out at once as I started to tour. I was making music and producing and I just had to start to DJ as I got more into touring.
Skrillex
As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
Claire Tomalin
I think you just have to cross your fingers that there’s enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.
Geddy Lee
A great thing, which I don’t do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.
Marti Noxon
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Producing 1,200 words every day, when you’re already working a full-time job is a lot.
Heather Cox Richardson
I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.
Ronnie Montrose
We found the appetite for ‘Frontline’ has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we’re doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we’re still producing these remarkable long-form films.
Raney Aronson-Rath
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
Fritz Haber
Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.
John Glover
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
You get lots of people, especially where I live, who go in to a butcher and insist on organic beef – even when the butcher has better-tasting stuff from a farm that’s been producing wonderful meat for 100 years but hasn’t jumped through the hoops to get organic certification.
Tom Parker Bowles
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I’ve never been happier.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.
Tahl Raz
The first musical stuff I worked on was after the tour for ‘Swing Lo Magellan’ had ended and I didn’t really know what else to do. I didn’t know what music I would write. I just did work for other people – arranging, producing, writing – and all of that seemed to be in L.A.
David Longstreth
I think NXT can definitely carry the burden of producing top tier talent.
Jason Jordan
To the extent that the academy is producing people who are talking utter nonsense, and imagining that it is sophisticated and enlightened – that system is a failure.
Bret Weinstein
Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness.
Ivan Illich
Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That’s the biggest risk I’ve taken so far.
J. Cole
Producing is figuring out how to make each character have a distinct voice, how to make the story twist and turn – that’s the biggest challenge.
Lauren Shuler Donner
‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of ‘To the Bone’ but to simply getting a film about people with eating disorders made. Without the brilliant Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, and Karina Miller producing, there’s no way this project would be coming to fruition.
Marti Noxon
More people are asking me to come and sing for them, so obviously I am getting more work. But apart from singing, I have been parallely programming and producing music tracks and assisting music directors. That is my bread and butter, which is how I survived in Mumbai. Now I can’t leave it.
Arijit Singh
Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.
Brendan Sexton III
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Thomas Malthus
I co-wrote and produced ‘Sticky Fingers’ with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.
Melanie Mayron
People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God’s sake, I’m not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I’m making a movie that people are going to look at.
Ridley Scott
Dependence on oil from volatile foreign markets undermines our economic security and threatens our national security. Moreover, that addiction is producing toxic air and a public-health epidemic.
Kevin de Leon
When you don’t make the playoffs, or you’re not producing a product that you’re proud of, then, yeah, it’s tough on everybody… it’s tough on the fans all the way down.
Mike D’Antoni
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Eduard Hanslick
I’ll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that – not girlfriends, friends, family.
Ansel Elgort
My policies are producing results and will produce even more.
Francois Hollande
School is the same as producing: If you want to make it

School is the same as producing: If you want to make it far, there are a million, trillion people trying to do the same thing. If you’re not in over-grind mode, it’s probably not going to work the way that you want it to.
Metro Boomin
A woman doing comedy doesn’t offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.
Jerry Lewis
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.
Thomas Piketty
I’m hoping to dive into the producing aspect of this industry. I don’t want to limit myself to just one thing, so I kind of want to dip my toe in every field and see what clicks with me.
Sistine Stallone
Abhishek Chaubey has been in my bucket list for a long time. When he approached me, I thought it’s for a film he is producing, but I never expected my fourth film to be an Abhishek Chaubey film.
Bhumi Pednekar
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
Harold Prince
Jc and I love our YouTube audience, and we’re going to keep producing videos, but we’re also really interested in learning what other opportunities are out there.
Kian Lawley
If I was producing something, it wouldn’t make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn’t put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn’t go to a movie because that person’s father is so and so.
Bryce Dallas Howard
I thought I was going to be YG’s DJ forever. I didn’t plan on producing; I just picked up producing and got good at it.
Mustard
Directing? It’s an appealing thought, but as far as I can tell, it’s a lot of work. Producing is easier. You can tell someone else what to do and then go home.
Timothy Olyphant
I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.
Tim McGraw
I’m increasingly conscious of the fact that, even when we know a lot, there’s an element of blind faith. For things to work well, you have to surrender to the moment. This is especially true of writing, producing and truly giving it all in a performance.
Rosalia
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
John Boyd Orr
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
Alanis Morissette
There are a lot of projects I want to do with producing and acting outside of wrestling.
Big Show
Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I’m actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don’t realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.
Tila Tequila
I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn’t necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you’re in.
Armin van Buuren
Boy, there are days where I get up and say ‘Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I’m producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.’
George R. R. Martin
After ‘Bake Off,’ I got these book deals that were very much baking books. But the books I’m producing now like ‘Perfect Plates in Five Ingredients’ and ‘Comfort,’ they’re really a truer representation of who I am as a food writer and a food industry professional.
John Whaite