I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.
By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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.
The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.
I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.