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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.

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.

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.

In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully.

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.