Producer Quotes: Insights and Wisdom from Industry Experts (Page 4)

"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"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"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"

Dick Wolf, Producer

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

Dick Wolf, Producer

"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"

Dick Wolf, Producer

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

Dick Wolf, 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

"When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows"

Dick Wolf, 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