Film Producer Quotes

Akira Kurosawa

Frank Zappa

George Lucas

Barbra Streisand

Michael Crichton

Abbas Kiarostami

Wim Wenders

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.

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

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

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.

When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.

You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.

Stirling Silliphant

Do you know the famous last words of the Fatted Calf? 'I hear the young master has returned.'

Monja Danischewsky

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.

Billy Ray Cyrus

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)

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

One of the greatest freedoms of living in America is being able to ask the question: "If I could do anything I wanted with my life - money being no object - what would I do?" In many parts of the world, people don't have the luxury of asking that question.

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

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.

I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

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.

A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

Jon Landau (film producer)

Oh God — I look back now, and it seems so gross. At just 14 years old, I had to wear a thong bikini. And then they used that scene in the trailer, so my entire school saw it! There are still men who come up to me today and say, "You were really hot in that film!" I was 14, for God's sake!

Katherine Heigl

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

G. Edward Griffin

I'll tell you in two words — Im possible.

One thing about being in the public eye is that you cannot let anybody intimidate you.

Nader Nadernejad

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

Peter James (writer)