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Quotes by Producer

"We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set."


"Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."

"You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there."

"Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn."

"Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant."


"The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made."

"I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer."


"People don't know how hard it is to have your own business."


"Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus."

"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."

"I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going."

"Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD."

"I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."

"I want every character be an outsider in some way."

"Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me."


"Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted."


"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."

"Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different."

"I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats."

"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."

"I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices."


"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."


"One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good."


"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it."

"I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works."


"The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge."
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