Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.
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Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.
When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second to none.
Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.
The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.
A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors.
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.