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Quotes About Work

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.
~ Mike Nichols
Producers are now employees, not creators.
~ Marshall Herskovitz
I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
~ Taylor Jenkins Reid
If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.
~ Sterling K. Brown
As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to come from an honest place. It has to come from a necessity.
~ Diego Luna
I have worked with producers like Saif Ali Khan and Salman Khan, and there have never been any complaints about my late-comings.
~ Govinda
I want my sheer work to to speak for my talent and it will be quite an achievement, I believe, if producers and directors look at my work and offer me something.
~ Sanam Saeed
I always want to work with a good director who's backed by excellent producers.
~ Gurmeet Choudhary
I've been doing a lot of pictures in Europe. So many that producers here don't call me when they have a part for me - they think I'm never here any more.
~ Van Heflin
The more one produces, the less one gets.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.
~ Kevin Connolly
I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.
~ Guillermo del Toro
I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
~ Brian Eno
There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day.
~ Sandra Bullock
The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
~ Mandy Moore
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
~ Harold Prince
I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.
~ Eleanor Catton
I resolve to work with my colleagues to succeed in producing the good rather than failing to produce the perfect.
~ Thom Tillis
I'm a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.
~ Mark Waid
Producing is a way of finding a great script that nobody's making, and believing in it, and doing what you can to get it made. It lets you work with your friends, people you really love to do something with.
~ Elliot Page
Producing a drama is particularly difficult.
~ Kevin Reilly
At Eventbrite, we value quality results over everything else. So while working late is acknowledged, at the end of the day, I care more about the results you're producing.
~ Julia Hartz
Producing is always really hard, and you can never tell who's going to be easy to get along with and who's going to be difficult.
~ James Murphy
Producing is getting the performances, tracking it, making sure all the parts are there. Mixing is when you take the finished work, and you make sure all the levels are right. It's putting all the parts together.
~ Devin Townsend