My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.
Now you are seeing electronic dance music producers on TV, on talk shows. It's so great to see the festivals growing bigger and bigger, it's like one big family that's all partying with each other. I love being a part of that.
We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.
Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.
Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.
There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.
My aesthetic is not a Disney aesthetic at all, but when I met with the wonderful producers at Disney, they weren't looking for me to do their aesthetic. I'd already spent 20 years in the theater, so if they were going to hire me, they'd be hiring me for what I have to offer.
I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.
If no producer, no movie.
When I first started, I wrote some songs with Linda Perry. She's so instrumental in a lot of artist's lives, listening to you and then helping you write songs that are you, that bring the most of what you are out, whereas a lot of producers might put their stamp on you. I gained confidence because I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.
We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.
Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.
Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.
Real movie producers arent this nice.
The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.
Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.
The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.