I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.
It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.
No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.
I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.
