My husband himself is a producer, so we know the practical difficulties of producers.
Festive seasons are good for releases, but we have to leave some festival dates for other producers to release their films as well. We cannot take away all the holiday releases.
I’ve literally been in sessions with producers, writing for other people, and they’re like, ‘We need a song for this artist, and we need it to sound like this song.’ They’re literally saying, ‘Rip off this song that was no. 1 last week,’ and that’s just so uninspiring.
A lot people don’t know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He’d be silly, too, when he raps.
I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that’s where I started my career.
I’m not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: ‘Are there no 70-year old vampires?’ Apparently there are not – or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.
For too long, the producers of non-dairy beverages, such as almond and soy products, have unfairly benefited from the ability to label their products as milk.
Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It’s not just writing. It’s also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines.
The producers of ‘The Hobbit’ take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge.
We’re never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I’ll move on. If I feel it’s important enough, I will pursue the question.
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.
If the audience shows that it is interested in films portraying strong women, then the producers will be tempted to make such films.
I think everyone is making a lot of money, whether it is the actors, the producers, or the TV channels.
There are loads of kids out there who haven’t got a clue what ‘Men Behaving Badly’ was; it was such a long time ago. So I’m able to spread my wings a little bit more. I was able to do it on stage over the years. Most directors and producers don’t know who I am these days, anyway!
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
I had to beg to get out of my contract with Capitol. They wanted me to work with big producers. I wanted to produce my music, and they weren’t having that. I’m sure they were happy to let me go. I just didn’t want to do what they wanted me to do.
The less subsidy we have, the more the ‘producers’ take over, and the ‘bottom line’ becomes the raison d’etre. That’s quite an unappealing landscape for artists.
When you have filmmakers like Justin Simien, writers, producers, actresses like Lena Waithe, who are people of color, they’re creating their own content and saying, ‘You know what? We’re not going to wait on someone else to tell our story. We’re going to do it ourselves. You can be a part of it or not.’
I see what other people do and what songwriters don’t. They don’t get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else’s umbrella. If you’re building your own legacy, it can’t be under an umbrella.
A list songwriters and producers are reluctant to give Kesha their songs because of her weight.
The thing about hip-hop producers, and the thing about hip-hop musicians, is that we listen to everything. And we’re inspired by everything. I’d say even more so than any other genre of music.
No I.D. is actually married to my cousin, and my cousin is my manager. So I met him when she met him many years ago. I was in the studio and he hooked me up with a bunch of producers that he knew.
I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ and ‘Biloxi Blues.’
Producers get very jittery about things.
It’s not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.
I have a lot of friends in Kollywood. I enjoy a very warm relationship with many actors, actresses, directors, and producers here.
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities – the actors, multiple producers.
Ever since my first film, I had more producers than scripts. And I’ve realised that a certain project requires a certain kind of producer for it to be made well.
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.
When you start early, and you’re writing for free, there’s a lot of producers that will take advantage of you… It is seared in my brain forever.
When I got signed to the ‘Fader’ Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.
I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.
When we think about big records, a lot of producers are thinking of how to make it as standard as possible. I think those days are gone. I think you have to surprise the audience in 2015.
I think the more open-minded people we have – like casting directors and producers – the better things are going to be.
The government should take a decision on whether to allow Pakistani actors in India or not, but I think directors and producers will themselves not cast Pakistani actors seeing the kind of opposition the country is witnessing against them.
Too often, farmers and producers are left out of the national conversation on the climate crisis – or even dismissed altogether. But in reality, their expertise is a big part of the solution.
Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.
I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
I had admired the way the producers of the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise had found David Yates, who ended up doing their four final movies, and he’d come from television.
Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse ‘Tootsie’ story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.
My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.
If you start from the farm sector, we need much better investments and capital creation on land. We need logistics support; we need cold chain and processing capability. We need proper pricing at various stages to ensure that the producers are not left out in the value-chain.
Writing was something that came easily to me and there’s so many great producers who just teach you so much.
I was pampered by all my father’s directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.
I have a lot of respect for, always dig, the crew. Sometimes a lot more than the cast. But a good run production team is paramount to making a good film. You just can’t it done without a good line producer, without creative producers, without people who are making stuff happen.
To you people out there, you producers and you network owners and you agents and you creative sparks, please give transgender talent a chance. Give them auditions. Give them their story. Do that.
One other thing, if it’s possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
The phenomenon that is ‘Game Of Thrones’ has propelled many actors associated with it into the minds of directors and producers, and it’s a fabulous position to be in. It’s because it’s so adored and respected, of such high quality with such amazing cinematography.
If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there’s always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of things that people want to see, while at the same time pushing the form along.
There were times I was told, ‘You are too gay.’ I turned down a lot of things because producers said they wanted me to be different. I said, ‘It’s not going to happen.’
My relationships with producers or photographers – these are relationships that took years.
I loved working on ‘Donnie Darko.’ I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.
I knew at the time that that wasn’t the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don’t know.
