You’re in the business – when you’re a writer, producer, director – to get ratings.
Drake is a lyrical genius, and he’s great with melodies, and Pharrell is an amazing producer and songwriter.
I’m a producer for fun. I’m not a professional schooled musician or anything.
Madlib isn’t a beatmaker, he’s a producer.
The art is what can’t be put on a timeline. You can’t say, ‘Well, I’m going to make a record in May because that’s when the producer has a window.’ So just recording and getting things out is paramount for me.
I had a meeting with the producer of ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ which is my favorite movie. He introduced me to Francis, and I spent six months going to Napa and Buenos Aires, auditioning for Francis and doing these incredible improvisational games. It was a very bohemian audition process.
I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of ‘everything’s okay’ to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.
I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.
Any new producer starting up is to get investors’ confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
Theatrical experience will always be the norm in India. In fact, as a producer and as an actor, I always hope that the magnum opus theatrical experience should always continue.
I want to direct but I think I’d be bloody awful and I don’t want to produce but I think I’d be a very good producer because if I believed in something I’d be able to protect it.
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.
He’s a good tough producer, yes. But I don’t think that he’s unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody’s in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.
I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there – I was an associate producer for a little bit.
If I was going to do anything, I’d be a producer, only because I’d like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn’t.
