I'm a human entropy producer.
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public
As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
Finding the fine line between satisfying a daytime TV audience and an afternoon radio audience. That involved editing down my delivery to under an hour. I've been blessed to have great producers and a great staff to achieve that. I have a small team but they're very efficient.
Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.
There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press. . . and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.
It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.
The Ramones couldn't play in my key. They couldn't switch keys, so Ed Stasium literally had to play all the instruments for my version of "Rock 'N' Roll High School," and I always thought that was so weird, because it's not the Ramones playing. It's the producer, who happened to just be a musician and could play everything.
Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.
You can put together an album with a bunch of producers, but your vision has to be clear. If you just grab a track from this person and this person and put them on a CD it doesn't mean that they go, just because you are rapping over them.
I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.
If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.
I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have. . . You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.