American Film Producer Quotes

Frank Zappa

George Lucas

Barbra Streisand

Michael Crichton

Howard Hughes

Ang Lee

Spike Lee

As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.

Gradually I got tuned into the world — that happens on every movie. I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.

Frank D. Gilroy

That man's ears make him look like a taxi-cab with both doors open.

Of Clark Gable

How come you ain't got no brothers up on the wall?

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.

My background in music came from me playing drums and piano as a young child. My grandmother was a pianist and I was influenced by her and my parents were playing rock records which influenced my drumming. I was a fan of film scores, rock, classical, jazz, and hip-hop in my early years and tried to learn as much about each of those genres as possible. I began writing music in a serious way in my teen years while I was playing in various bands and orchestras.

Cornered
by identities I never wanted to claim,
I ran.
Fast.
Hard
Deep
Inside myself.

WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

Richard Rowland

After losing his shirt on a period drama about Napoleon:

Never, never, will I do another play where a guy writes with a feather.

Max Gordon (producer)

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Joseph E. Levine

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.

Mulder: Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted.

Asking Graham Greene if he would revise the last part of the screenplay for a remake of 'Ben Hur':

You see, we find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion.

Oh, Jerry, don't ask for the moon. We have the stars.

An actor is a kind of a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each differently.

My mantra, and the key to all my success is simple: relationships over results, always.

Gary W. Goldstein

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.