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I don't like begging money from producers.

There are lots of good producers out there.

I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I'm no producer's kid.

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.