Quotes About Creative

After 'Return Of The Bumpasaurus' in '96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced two songs in a year. I was totally kicking it, running around.

Early on, I joined that large group of show business cadets who were 'multi-hyphenates,' 'independents,' 'self produced' or 'alternately financed.' Sometimes, most times, I've had to do it all: raise the money, write the script, produce, direct and act in the film.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

I'm a very hands-on producer.

Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.

For a producer, I've been behind the scenes my whole career.

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of the way and support the director one hundred percent.

You see, I believe a producer's job today is as important as that of a director.

As a producer, I wanted to make medium-budget films, and I did.