Quotes About Creativity

Part of the fun of working on 'Beverly Hills, 90210,' for me, was that I got a lot of freedom from our executive producer, Chuck Rosen, to add things, change things. I got a lot of freedom to be creative.

I can only go with my gut and say what I would like to do, and then my producer comes in and makes it happen.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

I work with any producer that brings me a hot beat, but you don't always know if it's a sample.

Every song that is a Hopsin song, I 100 percent made it. Nobody helped me. There was no producer to say, 'Hey, put the beat like this... ' It was all me. If the song was wack, then the song was wack. If it's dope, it is what it is.

I want to be an executive producer.

When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I enjoyed playing the dual role of an actor and producer.

I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

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 only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing up on set, making sure I know my lines and making sure I know what I'm bringing to the character. When I'm a creator and executive producer, I have to worry about the whole thing.

Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.

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