Producer Quotes

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

There can be no liberty without the law.

The public is always right.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

I win my awards at the box office.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.

There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.