Producer Quotes: Insights and Wisdom from Industry Experts

"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness"

"Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest"

"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk"

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

"Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot"

Roger Corman, Producer

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release"

Roger Corman, Producer

"It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination"

David Heyman, Producer

"The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways"

David Heyman, Producer

"A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away"

Gene Roddenberry, 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

"Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script"

Robert Wise, Producer

"Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them"

Aaron Spelling, Producer

"I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold"

Howard Lindsay, Producer

"There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social"

David E. Kelley, Producer

"And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

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

David Heyman, Producer

"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!"

Roger Corman, Producer

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

Roger Corman, Producer

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

Roger Corman, Producer

"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"

Roger Corman, Producer

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

David Heyman, Producer

"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"

David Heyman, Producer

"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"

David Heyman, Producer

"I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material"

David Heyman, Producer

"All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy"

David Heyman, Producer

"I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again"

David Heyman, Producer

"I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened"

David Heyman, Producer

"I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed"

David Heyman, Producer

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