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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

I don't like begging money from producers.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

What's difficult with doing 'The Producers' is your appetite is enormous. You want money; you want boards; you have huge desires. You've got to want more than anything for two and a half hours. Everything is heightened.

For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.

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.

It is important to be financially savvy when you turn producer. As a director, you just need to have a good script in hand.

There are lots of good producers out there.

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.