Famous quotes by Producers

Explore perspectives from producers whose work turns ideas into reality. These voices span film, television, music, theater, podcasts, and digital media, offering reflections on leadership, collaboration, budgets and risks, and the craft of shaping a story from concept to completion. Whether you're curious about the creative process or the logistics behind the scenes, the selected remarks invite you to consider how vision, persistence, and teamwork converge to make projects happen and bring audiences meaningful experiences.

"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail"

David Merrick, Producer

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

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Include me out"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"The harder I work, the luckier I get"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law"

Cecil B. DeMille, Producer

"It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose"

David Merrick, Producer

"Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day"

David O. Selznick, Producer

"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"A Hospital is no place to be sick"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think"

George Martin, Producer

"Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough"

Arthur Freed, Producer

"No agency is better than its account executives"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"You've got to take the bitter with the sour"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail"

David O. Selznick, Producer

"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"Time is the fire in which we burn"

Gene Roddenberry, Producer

"TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press"

Fred W. Friendly, Producer

"It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan"

Norman Lear, Producer

"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Our comedies are not to be laughed at"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Let's have some new cliches"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"Spare no expense to save money on this one"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

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