Quotes About Passion

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

I would always rather be working on the band. All that other stuff is stuff I really enjoy doing, but I don't consider it... like, I don't want to be a producer. I don't consider that as my life's goal.

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

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

I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.

Nothing means more to me than making the best music and me getting better as a writer and producer... I want you to know I work really hard. The bar is really high.

A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else.

I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.

As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.

I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

Every creator has to follow what they believe. That's the message I would love for every single executive to get, to clearly understand, and every single producer out there.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris... there are so many artists and producers.

For every film that I have believed in - from 'Tanu Weds Manu' to 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein' - it was very difficult to find producers.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.

What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.

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.