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Quotes by Producer
"Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael."
37
"Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many."
36
"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."
36
"The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context."
36
"It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument."
36
"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."
36
"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."
36
"I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world."
36
"Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."
36
"Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry."
35
"I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States."
35
"Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more."
35
"I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck."
35
"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."
34
"Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature."
34
"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images."
34
"I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else."
Name,
34
"You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing."
33
"That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style."
33
"I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate."
33
"And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it."
33
"I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews."
Wife,
33
"I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then."
33
"I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences."
32
"People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh."
32
"I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me."
30
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."
30
"Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way."
Work,
30
"Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business."
30
"They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business."
30
"Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation."
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