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- Nov 07, 2020
Executive Producer Quotes
On behind-the-scenes decisions that shape a show.
These executive producer quotes offer behind-the-scenes insight into television decisions, from hiring debates to reading audience reviews. See Amazing quotes for related industry reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writers on my team and the producers and executive producer should be called talent. We anchor four hours on Saturday and three on Sunday. How they do that astonishes me.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was offered the role of the Reverse Flash on 'The Flash' by Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, who co-created the series with Andrew. I said 'yes' immediately because I had worked with those guys before on the show 'Eli Stone.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wound up getting pulled into being a consultant on the Lifetime drama 'For the People.' The executive producer said, 'I want you to write scripts.' We sold pilots to a bunch of different networks.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?
- Endings
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Battlestar Galactica' executive producer Ronald D. Moore told Tor.com that the series finale of 'Battlestar' turned out exactly as he'd intended, but there were several alternate endings that were considered before the final version was produced.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I saw the rise of the anti-Christ Donald Trump, I was like, 'Hell no.' We can't be in a country where we love celebrities so much that we let the executive producer of 'Celebrity Apprentice' become the GOP nominee.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it's not very funny, you don't dare go to them and say, 'I don't like this,' because it will make your life miserable.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020