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I feel like my music has so many different things going on. I’ve always worked with many different producers. And a lot of times, each of them has a different thing that I really love about what they do.
As an actor, you’re in the hands of producers and directors. It’s important to find out who you’re working with.
What can I do if the director and producers comes to me with a certain demand for a vision for a song? I will try my best to give them a song that matches their vision.
I have purchased a flat in Malad, but that is not with my ‘Bigg Boss’ prize. I had bought it with my earnings that were released by producers of ‘Bhabhiji Ghar Pe Hain’ just before I was offered ‘Bigg Boss.’
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don’t want to spend money on orchestra.
There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work because producers want bums on seats, and they’re going to get bums on seats if they get a name, if you have had that series on telly.
I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they’re not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn’t go to the movies.
My family had this dream where we would meet producers and songwriters, and it was not what we thought it would be.
That was very difficult for me on ‘American Idol’ to feel like I had to be a certain way. It wasn’t that the producers were saying that you shouldn’t be gay or whatever, but there was this unspoken energy around saying you have to appeal to Middle America, and Middle America at that point was not ready for all that.
I had people in ‘Entertainment Weekly’ talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.
I can confidently say that I am comfortable with all the directors, co-star and producers with whom I have worked; there have been absolutely no tensions.
There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines.
Seattle isn’t known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that.
There’s no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I’ll write my own scripts in my own time.
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I’d say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I’d only be in action films, but I’m interested in a more varied career than that.
For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn’t use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
On ‘Queer Eye,’ I really get to see the way someone lives. They know the Fab Five are coming, but they don’t know when or how, so our producers make sure they don’t clean up so that we can experience exactly how they normally live.
I want to be a commercially viable actor. I want that the distributors and producers should earn the money; then only, you become a bankable actor.
The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue – it kind of was all over the place.
I can’t tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.
The bottom line is that female writers aren’t being given enough opportunities by male producers.
When you make the transition from local news to something like Fox, you feel incredibly blessed because now you have fantastic producers at every level who are helping you do the things you used to do by yourself.
I wanted to look cute, hot and sexy all at the same time in ‘Bigg Boss!’ How else will the Bollywood producers cast me in their films as the lead actress?
Stupidly, in our industry, producers pay precious money to sign stars whom they might not even use in the film. Producers believe stars make hits; actually it is the script that makes a film successful.
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.
I’ve had situations where producers would be like, ‘Could you meet me? Take the train; don’t tell your parents.’
I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That’s just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk.
I get advice from all the producers who have come out of Memphis. They just give me advice on the business side, because that’s most important besides the actual music. Just staying at a point I know I can’t mess myself up. I just got to be put up on game about it. Drumma Boy and Memphis Track Boy taught me a lot.
Who are these people who are taking these decisions of casting only young actors in films? It is the filmmakers and the film producers. I don’t know if that is what the audience wants because I really believe that masses respond to a good story.
DJ Sliink is amazing, and his production is on the next level. There are a lot of EDM producers that I’d like to work with, not for the sake of having an engineered record, but for the fact that I love their production and music.
Working on ‘NYPD Blue’ and ’24’, those two series, I did full runs on those. It’s great work, but everything has to align. The producers have to want you; the network has to want you; there has to be great writing; and it’s not as easy as it may appear to the outsiders to make all those things align.
I dream of collaborating with Q-Tip and Timbaland – it’s all producers. I’d really like to work with Drake and DRAM. The Weeknd would be dope. The list goes on and on. If Michael Jackson were alive, I’d love to collaborate with him.
I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.
The two Hindi movies that I did were not marketed well, and so not many people came to watch the film, hence the audience doesn’t know much about me. I am a newcomer, and I cannot sell a film on my own. There has to be a backing in terms of producers.
I try to keep up to my producers’ expectations. Sometimes, I can; sometimes, I cannot.
Raze’ is a horror/action film and they asked me to get involved when it was just in the developmental stage – they also brought be on board as one of the producers and that is really what drew me to it.
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
When ‘Pizza’ released, I was a nobody. Initially, we managed to get only 100 screens. But, after its success, the producers of ‘Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom’ got 150 screens and also released the film in the U.S. Now, distributors are keen to invest in my films because they feel I have face value.
It’s about removing the barriers between producers and consumers. I want to get rid of that mindset so that people realize in order to create, you have to participate.
I am not an established name in Bollywood and hence I can’t call the shots. In Kolkata, I have proved myself and am in a position in the industry where directors and producers easily listen to me.
It was not easy to convince someone to put their hard-earned money into my work. But if we have the talent and confidence and if the producers are confident of your work, it is not difficult to get a producer.
There’s a lot going on music-wise in L.A. It’s a wicked place to wake up, there’s sunshine, you go to the studio, see all these really talented producers.
As a kid, I was trying to copy what I heard. Namely, I was just listening to producers I looked up to, like 45 King and Marley Marl, and trying to do what they were doing.
I’m probably tougher on myself than I used to be. I’ll revise my lyrics more. Part of that is working with the right people and producers who will say, ‘How can you make that better?’ Allowing yourself to collaborate with people will push you toward transcendence.
