Famous quotes by Producers

"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create"

"I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world"

"What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination"

"Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before"

"Inspiration comes from all different places"

"The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering"

"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives"

"We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there"

"The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language"

"I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect"

"I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision"

"I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory"

"I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat"

"Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'"

"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work"

"I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive"

"I hardly see myself as a futurist"

"I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line"

"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make"

"There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie"

"The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house"

"People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity"

"I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time"

"Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!"

"Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted"

"As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally"

"One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work"

"When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well"

"If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do"

"I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences"