Quotes About Industry

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

Besides offering desirable products, the Free People brand continue to produce some of the most compelling imagery and customer engagement in the industry.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

I've had people say to me, 'You'll never sell handbags. You don't work with leather, and leather is luxury.' To me, it's the complete opposite: leather is everywhere - it's so cheap a material; it's so mass produced. Over 50 million animals a year are killed just for fashion. For me, it doesn't have a luxury element to it.

'Glee' is produced with three people and written by three people. In my mind, I don't believe there's any other show on television that was written by three people. The fact is there are shows that have 14, 15, or 16 people writing them.

Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.

I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.

If no producer, no movie.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'

While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend more and more on my live performances because of the evolution of the record industry, which has de-emphasized what made it possible to make a living.

One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.