Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.
Customers want to buy something which is not expensive because of a label but which is costly because of the time taken to produce it.
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.
Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.
Leo Bloom: I'm in pain and I'm wet and I'm still hysterical!
Franz Liebkind: Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
One of singers: I was born in Düsseldorf and that is why they call me Rolf !
Hold me, Touch me: Oh, hold me! Touch me! Max Bialystock: Thursday! Thursday!
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.
