Quotes About Creativity

There is always a producer within an actor. You just wait for the right time to start functioning as one.

I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

I feel like a lot of music producers have, like, the same toolbox. And I think, like, to me, as a producer, like, I want something to set my stuff apart.

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.

I don't sit around listening to beats all day. There's so many producers, and so much of it is derivative.

I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.

I wanted to be a great producer so I studied great hip-hop producers, but also stuff beyond that: Phil Spector, David Axelrod, Gamble and Huff. They're equally as influential to me as Dilla, Premier, and Pete Rock.

Well, I mean there are so many producers that inspire me. I used to try to imitate production by certain people. And now I'm only interested in doing the opposite of that. I'm only interested in doing production that like no one's ever done before.

There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.

When I came up, one of my favorite groups and producers was Three 6 Mafia.

I really didn't even pick producers. I just picked beats, except for Dre - he's the only producer I knew I wanted to work with.

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other part of development is I will work with my friends who are just some of the best producers in the world, give them an idea.

I dream of collaborating with Q-Tip and Timbaland - it's all producers. I'd really like to work with Drake and DRAM. The Weeknd would be dope. The list goes on and on. If Michael Jackson were alive, I'd love to collaborate with him.

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

They're hard to come by, good producers.

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

I love writing with really experienced producers and co-writers who open my mind to things I never would have thought otherwise. We may think the same way about something, but they might say it in a way that I never would have thought to say it.

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.

A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.