An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.
What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.
I brought in producer Johan Carlsson [Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida] and asked, "Can you make this better?" And he did.
I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.
So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!
I was very scared when I saw it, because Dune was for me very important in my life. I was very sad I could not do it. When I saw that David Lynch would do it, I was very scared, because I admire him as a movie-maker, and I thought he would do well. But when I see the picture, I realize he never understood this picture. It's not a David Lynch picture. It's the producer who made that picture, no? Who made this horror. For David Lynch, it was a job. A commercial job. It never was that for me.
I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
My stepfather was a producer. I'd always wanted to be in show business. And so when he came into my life and he told my brothers and myself, he said, look, if you want to be in this business, you're all going to have to start at the bottom.
I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"
My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
Being in L. A. , it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together. . . It's been a really cool experience.
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.