Famous quotes by Producers

"I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases"

"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things"

"My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out"

"A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed"

"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever"

"It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment"

"I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck"

"Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book"

"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth"

"Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so"

"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us"

"You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes"

"TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please"

"The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks"

"I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail"

"The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in"

"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim"

"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off"

"The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits"

"It's show business. No show, no business"

"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people"

"As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled"

"The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change"

"The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there"

"The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do"

"If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike"

"If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'"

"We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films"

"It's really wonderful that it's the whole franchise being recognized and it's a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us. We are like a family"

"Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer"