I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times whe...n this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and s...oldier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The only one who will have the right ...of exemption will be the mother ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my ...desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gonzo journalism ... is a style of "reporting" based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any ki...nd of journalism--and the best journalists have always known this.... True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it--or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since film is first visual, and then perhaps laden with intellectual content, the art form it most nearly seems to resemble is pai...nting. But since movies are moving pictures, perhaps sculpture is a better analogy or, since objects are perceived as moving in three dimensions, maybe architecture is better still.... If movies end as architectural objects in motion, they begin as construction projects. Making a movie is more like constructing a building on a vacant lot than like writing a book. The literary property is the lot. The movie is the building. The screenwriter is the architect, the director is the contractor, and the producer is theoretically the owner. The major studio (if one is involved) can represent the lending institution, the equity partner, and/or the leasing agent for the finished building. The artist, if we need to believe one is involved, is likely to be the lawyer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the ...co-producer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from d...istinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »