My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
I don't think of myself as a producer. In television, it's part of the business - if you progress and become successful as a writer, you're called a writer-producer. What that means is that you have a lot of say in casting and behind-the-scenes stuff. But I'm just a writer.
The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.
A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.
Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.
I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.
A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.
As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.