Quotes About Creation

The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.

If no producer, no movie.

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

I'm a producer at heart.

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.

My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

It's about removing the barriers between producers and consumers. I want to get rid of that mindset so that people realize in order to create, you have to participate.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

It's the inner that produces the outer.

God's word is always effective and produces whatever it expresses. My words, on the contrary, cannot create anything; I can only change what already is into something else.

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.

When you're producing, you're really just making a series of decisions.

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes things and has no real control or isn't willfully producing a certain kind of thing. It is labor-intensive, and it is research-intensive. You are making one decision after another, trying to get at something you think is important.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.

I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it.

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.