American Producer Quotations

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.

When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.

Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

To me, it's the White House and always will be.

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.

I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.

I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

I hate a man who always says "yes" to me. When I say "no" I like a man who also says "no.

No agency is better than its account executives.

I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who absolutely believes in exposing herself.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas.

When this strike is over, there will be fewer jobs. The people who were unemployed prior to the strike aren't going to be the first ones back to work.

Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before.

Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.

One is that I'm not good about going to the theater and being frightened. Something about sitting there with other people makes me twice as anxious.

I don't believe in aliens living on planets as such, but I do believe there's stuff going on in this room that none of us have any idea about.

I can justify those two things by simply saying, when that stops happening, when we lose our credibility, the show isn't as good.

I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.

Historically, they have tended to avoid being active, because they had some concern about it helping or hurting them, as the case may be.

I already had one of the best jobs in British policing, so it was always going to have to be something really outstanding to tempt me away.

I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.

I think, aside from being extremely attractive, the cast is really talented and can do humor and drama. I think the tone of the show surprised people.

It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.

Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

My thing was to be the man who makes his little 30 or 40 million a year and still get a cheeseburger and fries and don't worry about an autograph.

Material farmed out for comments to interested agencies and people meant they would be in touch later.

We live in the country. Occasionally I hear sounds at night, so naturally I send my wife downstairs to check it out whilst I hide in the cupboard.

Michael still agreed to be in it as long as he could wear a black suit-that's all that mattered to him. It was very funny and entirely Michael's idea.

Will asked me if his two kids could be in the movie, so I put them in a scene towards the end where Will, Tommy, and Rosario are in Manhattan.

Well, what a show like this will do that conventional news reporting can't, is, we can show you the two minutes before and after what you see on CNN.

Well, they're all family shows - they're all about families, and they're all about America. That's how I grew up. Those are my people, all of them.

We had to retain the sense that no one really knows what's going on, that in New York City, in the world, there are aliens, strange events.

You know what, almost all of the genre movies that had a big impact on me, people have tried to do them again, and they're never any good.

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.

We don't have any plans for any big stunt casting at this point. We do have four new characters who are coming on to the show, and they're all great.

We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma. It's actually scared me quite a bit.

We had no difficulty whatsoever in raising a great deal of money in those days. The sum paled by comparison with the current fund requirement.

We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

Well, television has become an unforgiving environment and you don't get to make mistakes. That was the great thing about Universal in the old days.

We don't live our lives the same way; we don't look at things the same way. We've changed the way we travel; we've changed just about everything.

There is a difference between me and most, which is that I am fresh off the block. I don't look for no special privileges. I'm a man who paid my does.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.

We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.

Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

Even a cop show was an anthology. I miss that, I miss it a lot. I don't know why they're not successful anymore; people just won't try them.

There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, it's continuing mission to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional.

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.