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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.
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.
As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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.
I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.
You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.