Quotes About Artistic

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

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

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

I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as 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.

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.

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

The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.

I always think that you should never, ever force a producer to do something with a song that they don't think they can do something fantastic with, I think it's a stupid idea to force it, even if you think it's your best song.

You can have a favorite band, but when they sign with a major label... maybe a new producer says, 'You can't do that, take this down a notch.' And you'll keep listening, but you'll always think their first album was their best album.

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists and Coke Studio. No actor, producer or label is telling me what to do with my music. I'm the boss. It is my life, my expression.

Mom was a very creative and artistic person and papa is a producer. I've grown up in an extremely colourful environment at home and I haven't been exposed to anything else.

I don't like begging money from producers.

I could never work in that kind of commercial environment where the stars have a lot to say, where the producers kind of push you around and tell you who to cast and who not to cast. I'm just not interested in that at all.

A composer like me finds it impossible to work with today's producers. They want to tell you exactly how to compose, which notes to play, which rhythms to put in which part of the song.

When I'm directing or producing, I like to do different kinds of stories. But you have to know what you really like, and when you do, you have to front your position.

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

I am a perfectionist and the only reason why I started producing is because I didn't want to argue with a producer.

I really expected things to be different. But being in Bad English was too much of a compromise. Instead of being true to the artistic side, there was this incredible pressure to keep producing the same kind of hits.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

If we must have the Production Code, then I think the only way to use it effectively is to judge a film as a whole and determine whether its effect is good or bad.