Quotes About Responsibility

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.

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

You see, I believe a producer's job today is as important as that of a director.

I never thought that a time would come that someone will write a story keeping me in mind, or a producer will invest crores of rupees on a film that I will carry on my shoulders.

I'm a producer, I'm a mom, a friend.

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

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.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.

My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.

Producers get very jittery about things.

I kept having the producers of 'Fog in August' take out some of the Nazi terms and phrases. I don't want audiences to look at this doctor and say, 'He is a Nazi monster' and think that it has nothing to do with our lives today.

Why is it that the producers can do anything and get away with it, and the actors are held accountable for everything? The makers often stop actors' payments, too. Everything is in their favour in the contract.

I have worked with producers like Saif Ali Khan and Salman Khan, and there have never been any complaints about my late-comings.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

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.

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.

Producing should be a creative responsibility.

When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

Coach Rivera and I are very close and I don't want to ever just get comfortable thinking I'm his guy or he believes in me. That doesn't matter if you're not producing on the field.