Quotes About Art

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

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

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

At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

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.

I know it sounds funny coming from me, 'cause I produced it, but that's one of my favorite bodies of work. That's what 'Beast Mode' was when it came out and still is.

'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.

All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think London. There's some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.

I produced 'Highway' and 'Chhichhore' for creative satisfaction.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form.

I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.

I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In some ways, I have looked to his career as a model for my own.

They're hard to come by, good producers.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Producers are now employees, not creators.