Quotes About Perspective

My wife - an ex journalist and current TV producer - has a rule that she taught me at the start of B3ta. Does the item make you laugh, or does it make you go, 'Oh my God?' If you score on either count, then you have something that is worth sharing.

Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world.

Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell.

Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different perspective.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

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.

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.

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.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did 'Mars et Avril' for only 2.3 million.

It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

I've been in over a hundred films so I know what producers are like.

When you're producing your own record, you do your best to be objective and take a step back from it from time to time.

I identify myself with the male gaze, I grew up with the male gaze, I've been excited by the male gaze. I'm a product of that culture.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Everyone is a product of their own environment, and that, I think, has actually been the key lesson for me.

The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it.

There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production.

I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.