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I don't think of myself as a producer. In television, it's part of the business - if you progress and become successful as a writer, you're called a writer-producer. What that means is that you have a lot of say in casting and behind-the-scenes stuff. But I'm just a writer.

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.

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.

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

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

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.