So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
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 only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.
I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully.
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.