I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.
With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.
My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
[finding a crate of fresh apples in a pile of rotting produce] Frank: Mmmmmm... Irradiated!
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.
As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.
I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.
Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
